Lancashire Cricket Club relegated from Division One
Lancashire have been relegated from Division One of the LV= County Championship after a draw against Middlesex at Old Trafford in their final match of the season.
Lancashire ran out of time to stave off relegation, and return to Division Two of the LV= County Championship after their Old Trafford shoot-out with Middlesex ended in a stalemate.
Only a home victory could have sent Middlesex down instead and - after bad weather took 14 overs out of the last day - the Londoners closed out the draw on 341 for eight declared and with no prospect of a successful chase of 253 in the hour remaining.
Veteran Lancashire captain Glen Chapple performed heroics to keep hopes of survival alive when he scrambled the necessary extra batting bonus point here 24 hours earlier.
But neither he nor the best efforts of Junaid Khan (three for 84) and Simon Kerrigan (three for 106) could break Middlesex's resistance as they secured top-flight safety at their hosts' expense.