Division One:
Hampshire 336 & 290-5 dec v Middlesex 361-9 & 55-2 - Match drawn
Hampshire batted for two sessions on day four to ensure their Championship match with Middlesex ended in a draw.
The hosts resumed their second innings at The Ageas Bowl on 76-1, a lead of 51, before declaring on 290-5 at tea.
Opener Jimmy Adams was removed by Steve Finn (2-59) after making 70 before Adam Wheater (57no) and Ryan McLaren (46no) shared an unbroken stand of 104.
Set 266 to win off 31 overs, Middlesex lost Sam Robson for nought, but closed out the game on 55-2.
Hampshire and Middlesex have both drawn their opening three Division One matches of 2016.
Middlesex went into the final day knowing they needed quick wickets to force an unlikely win, and Toby Roland-Jones provided an early breakthrough when he had Hampshire captain James Vince caught at backward point by Robson for 38.
However, Adams batted throughout the morning session to take Hampshire to 172-3 at lunch.
England pace bowler Finn provided a glimmer of hope for the visitors after the interval, dismissing Liam Dawson and Adams in consecutive overs, but wicketkeeper Wheater and all-rounder McLaren removed any chance of defeat with a fine century partnership.
Lancashire 493-9 dec v Somerset 313 & 229-2 dec - Match drawn
Marcus Trescothick made his 60th first class century - his second in a week - to steer Somerset to a draw against Lancashire in the County Championship.
Needing 180 to avoid an innings defeat after following on the previous evening, Somerset quickly lost night-watchman Tim Groenewald.
Tom Abell then gave a return catch to Simon Kerrigan to leave the hosts 61-2.
But Trescothick made 129 in an unbroken stand of 168 with skipper Chris Rogers (75 no) before declaring on 229-2.
The two veteran left-handers have a combined age of 78, but they also have a colossal 133 centuries and over 48,000 first class runs between them.
And they defied everything Lancashire - including 15 overs from England paceman Jimmy Anderson - could throw at them.
Twice in one Anderson over early in the afternoon session, Trescothick enjoyed good fortune when, with no second slip, he edged boundaries between first and third slip.
But, in the end, Lancashire, one of only two teams to win a game in Division One of the County Championship this season, took 11 points from the draw, to climb within three points of leaders Warwickshire.
Somerset, who have drawn all three of their Championship matches, took nine points, while the only winner was the typically flat, dry Taunton track, which did offer turn on the final day, but never gave much assistance to the seamers.
Surrey 457 & 244-6 v Durham 607-7 dec - Match drawn
Tom Curran's half-century helped Surrey draw with Durham at The Oval.
Paul Collingwood completed his 32nd first-class ton on day four as the visitors declared their first innings on 607-7, a lead of 150 runs.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes produced a devastating spell of bowling, taking three wickets in 16 balls for 12 runs, as Surrey collapsed to 65-3.
But Ben Foakes (36 no) and Curran (54) held firm to ensure the hosts secured the draw, with four wickets in hand.
Having resumed on 75, former England batsman Collingwood breezed his way to a club-record 22nd century for Durham, in an innings which included 11 fours and a six.
With the away side looking for a first win of the Championship campaign, Stokes trapped Arun Harinath lbw before having Rory Burns caught behind and Kumar Sangakkara caught at second slip.
Surrey's top-order struggled and when Scott Borthwick took a stunning catch in the slips to dismiss Jason Roy off Brydon Carse, the hosts were still trailing by 11 runs with only five wickets remaining.
However, Foakes and Curran's 83-run sixth-wicket partnership helped Surrey to 244-6 at stumps, giving them their second draw of the season and Durham's third.
Nottinghamshire 261 & 348 v Yorkshire 290 & 257-9 - Match drawn
Yorkshire drew with Nottinghamshire on a thrilling final day at Trent Bridge.
Set 320 to win off 53 overs, Yorkshire lost Adam Lyth early on but opener Alex Lees and Gary Ballance (43) set the platform for an exciting run chase.
Lees (107), Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow accelerated after tea but the visitors lost quick wickets and were left hanging on for a draw, ending 257-9.
Number 11 batsman Jack Brooks survived the last two balls of the match from England's Stuart Broad to avoid defeat.
Broad trapped Steven Patterson lbw in the final over, but Brooks edged his first delivery for four through gully and safely defended his second as Yorkshire clung on for a third draw in three Championship matches in 2016.
Earlier, Chris Read's 101 helped Notts from their overnight 151-5 to 348 all out in their second innings.
A game that looked set to peter out to a tame draw came to life when reigning champions Yorkshire, 64-1 at tea and requiring 256 further runs to win, attacked in search of an unlikely victory in the final session.
Root, who made a first-ball duck in the first innings, scored a quick-fire 27 and England team-mate Bairstow added 35 off 20 balls, while lower-order hitters Liam Plunkett and David Willey were pushed up the batting order.
But that intent almost proved Yorkshire's undoing as they were pegged back by Jake Ball (3-68) and Harry Gurney (4-53).
In the morning session, Yorkshire's wayward bowling was punished by Broad, who hit a 44-ball half-century and scored at more than five runs per over during a seventh-wicket partnership of 104 with Read.
Captain Read was 97 not out when Jackson Bird (23) became the ninth Notts wicket to fall, but Gurney saw off five balls from Patterson before Read reached his first Championship century of the season with a boundary off Adil Rashid.
Nottinghamshire are now top of Division One, while Yorkshire are four points behind in fifth.
Division Two:
Essex 451-9 dec & 95-2 dec v Worcestershire 411-8 dec - Match drawn
Tom Kohler-Cadmore became the fourth batsman to make a century in the match at New Road to help Worcestershire avoid defeat by Essex.
Resuming the final day on 226-5, the hosts still needed a further 76 runs to avoid any prospect of being asked to follow on by the Division Two leaders.
But Kohler-Cadmore made an unbeaten 119, aided by half-century stands with Ben Cox, Joe Leach and Matt Henry.
After Worcestershire's declaration on 411-8, Essex then declared on 95-2.
England captain Alastair Cook enjoyed another 36 overs of batting practice to reach an unbeaten 48 before hands were shaken.
That takes Cook to 523 runs for the season in his four early-season County Championship matches for Essex, at an average of over 130 - ahead of the Test series with Sri Lanka which starts at Headingley on 19 May.
Kohler-Cadmore's second Championship century, off 151 balls, helped Worcestershire secure maximum batting points to equal Essex's 12-point haul from the match.
A draw was always the likely outcome after the loss of 102 overs play on the opening two days but, after a slice of luck when Cox edged David Masters first delivery of the day to the boundary, Kohler-Cadmore kept his nerve.
Sussex 163 & 377-6 v Leicestershire 473-8 dec - Match drawn
Chris Nash's 21st first-class century helped Sussex secure a nervy draw against Leicestershire at Hove.
Resuming the final day on 113-0, Ed Joyce and Matt Machan fell early on before Nash and Ross Taylor shared a 93-run third-wicket stand.
Ben Raine had Nash, who hit 21 fours in his innings, caught behind for 144 leaving Sussex 342-5 - a lead of 32.
But bowlers Ollie Robinson (25 no) and Ajmal Shahzad batted for 14.5 overs as Sussex closed on 377-6.
Glamorgan 280 & 414 v Kent 488 & 190-0 - Kent won by 10 wickets
Kent cruised to their first Division Two win of the season in the Canterbury sunshine as openers Daniel Bell-Drummond and Tom Latham steered them past their modest target of 187.
They became only the third Kent opening pair in Championship history to make two century stands in a match.
Kent completed their 10-wicket win with more than half of day four to spare.
It was a second defeat in three games for a Glamorgan side who were outplayed for three of the four days.
Derbyshire 324 & 229-1 dec v Northamptonshire 470 - Match drawn
Derbyshire opener Chesney Hughes hit his second unbeaten County Championship century of the summer as their game with Northants ended in a tame draw.
Hughes, who made 96 and 137 not out in the first game of the season, struck 109 not out and shared an opening stand of 215 with Billy Godleman (94).
Earlier Northants were all out for 470 - a first-innings' lead of 146 - with Richard Levi last man to go for 104.
But Derbyshire eased past the deficit as they declared on 229-1.
On an otherwise untroubled day for the batsmen, there was one moment of controversy before tea when Godleman appeared to be caught at deep point by Jake Libby but declined to walk.
He was eventually given not out after a long conversation between umpires Martin Saggers and Russell Evans sparking a protest from Northants captain Alex Wakely.
Libby managed to remove Godleman in bizarre circumstances six short of his century when he hit his own wicket while trying to cut the ball, but the incident left a sour taste on an otherwise uninspiring final day.
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