Another 50 for Slater, but Notts see their lead cut after stalemate

OPENER HITS SIXTH SUCCESIVE HALF-CENTURY IN DRAW

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POCKETING 12 points for a draw was enough to keep Nottinghamshire top of the Rothesay County Championship table with eight of 14 matches played, although they now find defending champions Surrey breathing down their necks after the match against Yorkshire at Trent Bridge ended in stalemate.

Nottinghamshire led Division One by 10 points going into this round but Surrey's victory over Worcestershire at New Road has closed the gap to two ahead of next week's second batch of fixtures with the Kookaburra ball, when Surrey meet Durham at the Kia Oval and Nottinghamshire travel to Somerset.

Matthew Revis supplemented Finlay Bean's superb double-hundred with an unbeaten 93 but with Yorkshire's first innings stretching to lunch on day four before Nottinghamshire could bowl them out for 510 on a generally benign pitch, the chances of a positive outcome were almost non-existent.