Hampshire manager Giles White was “surprised” and "disappointed” after Yorkshire’s negative tactics ensured another bore draw at the Rose Bowl.

Yorkshire began the final day of the LV= County Championship match on 152 for 1, a lead of 216, but showed no interest in winning the game.

Instead they batted for most of the day and only declared when they did so their spinners had enough time to make up their slow first-innings over rate.

Hampshire began the final innings 356 behind with just 22 overs remaining, but only 14 were bowled before hands were shaken at the earliest opportunity.

Yorkshire's approach was a poor advert for the Championship, a week before the Friends Provident t20 takes over the domestic calendar.

White said: “It was disappointing we didn’t get a game in. I was surprised they didn’t set us a target and try and bowl us out but we could only play the game that was dictated to us.

“They could have been positive and set us something and put pressure on us but they obviously didn’t want to risk losing, which suggests they were wary of our batting line up.

“We wanted to play the game and with 16 points for a win against three for a draw you would expect sides to take a risk most of the time.

“They could have set us a very stiff target and still had a good chance of bowling us out and if we were in a position to dictate things it may have been different.

"We need results, but at least we’re in a better place than we were two weeks ago.”

If an interesting final day was to be had, Yorkshire needed to score quickly to get a satisfactory lead and still leave enough time to take ten wickets.

But the signs were not promising when Anthony McGrath (64) began the day by batting out a maiden against Dominic Cork and only 28 runs were scored in the 14 overs that were possible before lunch.

The big wickets of Jacques Rudolph (28) and Adam Lyth (98), who was denied his second hundred of the match by a one-handed Neil McKenzie catch at second slip, were taken in successive overs midway through the afternoon session.

With the lead at 297, it was hoped a Yorkshire declaration would follow soon.

But they continued to bat for another hour-and-a-half, scoring at less than three an over throughout their second innings.

James Vince kept wicket after tea to give a frustrated Nic Pothas a rest and when Yorkshire did eventually declare it was greeted by sarcastic cheers from the few spectators left in the ground.

Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale’s conservative tactics were probably due to a chastening experience at Taunton last week.

After Gale declared at 333-4, Somerset chased down 362 in 65.4 overs to win by six wickets with 32 balls to spare.

The inexperienced skipper was simply not prepared to risk a repeat, but Hampshire have at least now strung together a win and two draws from their last three Championship matches, even if they remain in the bottom two following Kent’s recent thrashing of defending champions Durham.

After next week’s match against Essex at the Rose Bowl, Hampshire will already have played half their Championship games for the season.

But White remains positive.

“The table’s very close and a couple of wins changes things very quickly,” he added.