Yorkshire displayed their intention to attack, attack, attack during this summer’s LV= County Championship title defence by attempting to chase down 352 in the final two sessions of their draw against Warwickshire at Headingley.

The White Rose went after a stiff target set in 68 overs, only to lose a couple of key wickets in Cheteshwar Pujara and Andrew Gale shortly after tea to leave themselves at 136-4 with just over 32 overs remaining.

It meant that with ex-New Zealand off-spinner Jeetan Patel, arguably the best spinner on the circuit, in the wickets and bowling nicely, they were forced to settle for a nine-point draw.

That was secured through a calm unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 85 inside 29 overs between Andrew Hodd and York’s Jack Leaning, who made 54 and 35 respectively to help the champions close on 221-4 from 64.

“We were having a crack at the target, but losing Pujara and Galey in quick succession, that made it very difficult,” said coach Jason Gillespie.

“Our plan was to try to go at four an over for about ten overs immediately after tea, which would have left us with 28 overs to go and we would see where we were at. Maybe then we’d have had a red hot go at it.”

Gillespie, like the rest of us, was surprised to see Warwickshire continue their second innings beyond lunch, especially following the loss of eight overs to weather during the morning.

“In my view, had they given themselves enough time to have a crack with a second new ball, it could have been a very different game,” he added.

“We’d look to be a lot more pro-active.

“We sort of worked out Warwickshire’s game plan during the third afternoon when they were going at a shade under three runs an over trying to set up the game.

“They showed their intent there, or lack of.

“We knew they were going to completely bat us out of the game and then try to bowl 65 to 70 overs at us. That’s exactly how it worked out.

“That’s their tactics, and that’s fine. That’s the best way they thought to win. All I’m saying is that there’s no way you’ll see Yorkshire playing like that.

“We were comfortable in having a crack at the target, and if we did lose a few wickets, we were confident enough to save the game.

“Once they set us a target, we didn’t genuinely believe a loss was an option because we backed our batters to survive it, but we still wanted to give ourselves a chance of a win.”

Leaning and Hodd batted superbly with Patel turning the ball and with men round the bat, with the latter reaching his fifty off 92 balls shortly before the players shook hands at 6.10pm.

Earlier, Warwickshire advanced their second innings from 108-2 to 219-7 declared, with James Middlebrook finishing with five wickets.

First-innings centurion Ian Westwood (84) fell short of becoming the first man ever to score two hundreds in a first-class match at Headingley.