LANCASHIRE will have to wait until next week’s match against Kent at Canterbury to seal LV= County Championship promotion following a rain-affected draw against Glamorgan.

After enjoying the better of the match against their third-placed opponents at Emirates Old Trafford, which finished today, the Red Rose side need only five more points from their final three matches to return to Division One for 2016.

Bad weather earlier in the match meant Lancashire were left with too much to do during day four to force an eighth win from their 13th match, with Glamorgan closing on 159-3 from 82 second-innings overs having followed-on.

The hosts started the day needing 14 wickets with Glamorgan, replying to a first-innings 462, at 182-6.

And despite forcing the Welshmen to follow-on inside the first hour of play, the visitors comfortably held out in their second innings led by a stubborn 63 off 206 balls from captain and opener Jacques Rudolph.

After early wickets for Kyle Jarvis and James Faulkner reduced the score to 45-2 inside 27 overs during the first half of the afternoon, Rudolph and Chris Cooke shared 91 inside 46 overs for the third wicket either side of tea.

The day started superbly for Lancashire as Simon Kerrigan excelled.

With last man Kieran Bull unable to bat due to a back injury, Kerrigan’s three wickets were enough to wrap up the innings for 213 and enable him to finish with figures of 4-60 from 24.4 overs.

The left-arm spinner bowled a sweeping Mark Wallace, had Graham Wagg stumped and Michael Hogan caught at mid-on, with the latter two falling in the space of four balls in the 80th over.

Jarvis made the breakthrough in the sixth over of Glamorgan’s second innings when a superb one-handed catch high above his head at gully from Karl Brown helped to dismiss Will Bragg.

Unfortunately for Brown, he later had to leave the field with a hand injury suffered whilst fielding at silly mid-off, a concern ahead of Saturday’s T20 Finals Day.

Faulkner had Colin Ingram caught behind before Steven Croft’s off-spin broke the Rudolph and Cooke alliance in the 73rd over of the innings by trapping the former lbw to leave the score at 136-3.

And while Glamorgan’s resistance held Lancashire’s promotion bid up, it is unlikely Kent will do the same next week.

Meanwhile, Arron Lilley, Jordan Clark and Liam Livingstone have all extended their contracts at Emirates Old Trafford.