Yorkshire and Hampshire played out a dull LV= County Championship draw – even though records tumbled on day four at the Rose Bowl.

Michael Carberry and Neil McKenzie shared a staggering 523 runs over 136 overs for the third wicket of the home side’s first innings as they alone just fell short of matching Yorkshire’s total of 532.

Both captains failed to agree on a contrived finish, meaning the pair batted through today’s first two sessions before Dominic Cork declared just after tea on 599-3.

Carberry amassed an unbeaten 300 and McKenzie was finally out for 237 during the first over after tea when he punted left-arm spinner David Wainwright to mid-on.

That was Yorkshire first success since day two’s evening session, when Wainwright removed opener Jimmy Adams.

There were a whole host of new records but the most important information to note is that Yorkshire finished with six points to move 17 clear of second-bottom Worcestershire, who have two games in hand.

Carberry and McKenzie go onto the all-time first-class partnerships list at number nine but their efforts came on an incredibly flat pitch.

That was further highlighted when Jacques Rudolph and Joe Sayers eased to 40-0 from ten second-innings overs before a 5pm finish.

“I was fully expecting the pitch to deteriorate,” said Yorkshire director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon.

“Yet for some reason it seemed to get better and better and slower and slower.

“It was the type of pitch that if you showed determination and desire to bat on, you could be difficult to dislodge. All credit to them.”

Captain Andrew Gale used nine bowlers, excluding only himself and Gerard Brophy.

“From a bowling point of view, we probably bowled a four-ball an over,” said Moxon, who saw spinners Adil Rashid and Wainwright both go for more than 100 runs.

“Having said that, the margin for error on that pitch was very small.”

Both Carberry and McKenzie posted career-best scores and their partnership was the third-highest in English first-class history.

Ironically, the two higher partnerships were both posted by Yorkshire, the highest being 555 between Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe against Essex in 1932.