LV COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE DAY FOUR

Durham 568-9 dec

Middlesex 330 and 90-2

Match drawn

Middlesex avoided a likely defeat against champions Durham after rain wiped out the final day.

Play was abandoned at 1.30pm with the Seaxes 90-2, still 148 behind having followed on.

The draw, in which Middlesex picked up nine points, returned them to the top of the Division One table, five points clear of Yorkshire.

Sam Robson had continued to impress in the match, unbeaten on 42 in the second innings and he will be hoping his good form will be enough to earn him an England call-up when the squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka is announced later this morning.