A PITCH which yielded 14 wickets on the first day allowed only five to fall on the fourth as Durham and Yorkshire settled for a draw at Emirates Riverside.

Two of those came in two balls during an excellent mid-afternoon spell by Irishman Barry McCarthy. But the fact that his second victim was New Zealand Test star Kane Williamson seemed to end Yorkshire's ambition to chase a target of 357 in 81 overs.

It looked gettable while openers Adam Lyth and Alex Lees were putting on 112, but after playing fluently until he reached 60 Lees was becalmed and took a further 53 balls to reach 74.

When he was fifth out, bowled by a shooter from Ryan Pringle, Durham still had 24 overs to bowl. But they were defied by Jack Leaning and Tim Bresnan as Yorkshire closed on 238 for five.

It was a disappointing finish for Durham following the heroic innings by Keaton Jennings, who recorded the fifth highest score by a Durham batsman.

His 221 not out has been beaten only by Australians – Martin Love (twice), Mike Hussey and Michael Di Venuto. It was also the first second innings double century for Durham.

The 23-year-old left-hander had batted for 578 minutes, faced 416 balls and hit 23 fours when the declaration came on 507 for eight, beating Durham's previous highest second innings total of 453 in the one-wicket win at Taunton in 2004.

The docile pitch looked the likely winner after no wickets fell in the morning session. Durham batted on for 55 minutes to add 55 runs, Paul Collingwood's caution probably stemming from his memory of Yorkshire knocking off 336 when he declared on the third evening three years ago, Joe Root making 182.

Resuming on 185, Jennings reached his double century with an on drive for two off Bresnan, having earlier edged an attempted upper cut over wicketkeeper Andrew Hodd.

Collingwood did not take the field because of his fractured thumb, his place at slip being taken by Ben Stokes with ECB permission as he recovers from his knee operation.

Chris Rushworth and Graham Onions ran in hard in search of a breakthrough when Yorkshire batted. But with the score on 16 after eight overs Durham dangled a carrot by bringing on Scott Borthwick and both Lees and Adam Lyth hit the leg-spinner for four in his first over.

The openers continued to pick up runs with relative ease off the spinners after lunch, Borthwick conceding 50 in nine overs before McCarthy replaced him.

He struck in his fourth over, Lyth edging a ball of almost yorker length to be caught just above his head by Stokes at slip. Lyth departed reluctantly, believing it was a bump ball, but replays suggested otherwise.

The next ball nipped back sharply to have Williamson lbw and off the hat-trick ball Gary Ballance survived huge appeals for a leg-side catch by wicketkeeper Michael Richardson.

Ballance scored 17 off the next six balls he faced, hinting that Yorkshire would go for it. But Durham recalled Graham Onions, who in two spells conceded only 20 in 11 overs and had Ballance caught behind for 32 with an excellent ball from round the wicket. It pitched on off stump and seamed away to take the edge.

Although Lees and Andrew Gale ran hard there was no other sign of urgency and when they departed in successive Pringle overs any chance of a late onslaught was gone.

Gale edged behind when pushing forward; Lees stayed back when he was bowled. But there were no further alarms for Yorkshire.