Cricket: Cambridge University showed little faith in their bowlers by batting on at Headingley today until they were all out for 366 on the final day of the rain-hit match which had seen a complete wash-out on Saturday.

Yorkshire then declined to forfeit their first innings - a move which would have led to them chasing a 367 target if the students had followed suit by forfeiting their second innings.

The tactics condemned the game to an almost certain draw and the University's negative approach came as a surprise after they had shown great enterprise yesterday in making 331 for seven.

An overnight declaration followed by two forfeitures would then have allowed Yorkshire's weakened batting line-up to attempt a 332 target with the prospect of an exciting finish to the match.

But the University's decision to bat on for a further 35 runs on a sluggish pitch obviously made Yorkshire opt for batting practice, instead of risking defeat, and captain Michael Vaughan and Anthony McGrath carefully compiled 19 from the first eight overs.

The one positive thing to come out of today's humdrum events was that Darren Gough was able to get in another spell of bowling in his warm-up to the third Test at Old Trafford on Thurs-day and he sent down four overs for seven runs.

Gough, in his first match since breaking his right index finger while batting for England three weeks' ago, bowled five spells during the innings, giving him final figures of two for 54 off 23 overs.

He was generally happy with his performance, but said he could still feel some pain in his finger.

Chris Silverwood made the first breakthrough today by having Malcolm Birks well caught by Craig White at first slip, but Adam Janisch then swung him through mid-wicket for four and the next delivery slipped out of Silverwood's hand and went to the boundary for six wides to be recorded.

Yorkshire's debutant off-spinners Richard Wilkinson and James Middlebrook both bowl-ed well yesterday, with Wilkin-son claiming the wicket of centurion Imraan Mohammad.

Middlebrook had to wait until today for his maiden first-class dismissal which came when he knocked back Janisch's off-stump for 23 and he rounded off the innings by having Phil Moffatt caught behind.

The main feature of what, until today, had been a most enterprising innings by Cam-bridge University, was Imraan's sparkling 136.

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