County Championship: Gloucestershire batters secure draw with Yorkshire

Gloucestershire's Ollie Price made a career-best 147

Ollie Price's career-best 147 and a century from James Bracey helped Gloucestershire to an unlikely draw on the final day of the County Championship match with Yorkshire in Bristol.

The pair shared a fifth-wicket stand of 199, Bracey making 102 as they batted from the start to the brink of tea, rescuing their side from a perilous overnight position of 97-4, chasing 498 to win.

Price's fourth first-class ton and Bracey's 10th frustrated the Yorkshire attack, allowing Gloucestershire to close on 405-6.

Unbeaten on 44 overnight, Price moved to a 104-ball fifty, with seven fours.

He had one moment of alarm on 54 when edging a turning delivery from Dan Moriarty, only for the ball to ricochet off the gloves of wicketkeeper Jonny Tattersall and out of reach of first slip.

By lunch, the Gloucestershire pair had taken the score to 166-4, with Price unbeaten on 75 and Bracey 38 not out.

Bracey reached his half-century off 99 deliveries. Price began to go on the attack, hitting three successive fours off short balls from Matt Fisher.

Price stepped back to hammer Moriarty for a boundary through the off-side, which brought up his hundred off 175 balls.

Rain brought a brief interruption at 224-4 but only two overs were lost before normal service was resumed.

A two off Moriarty took Price past his previous highest first class score of 132. Yorkshire's last hope was the second new ball, taken at 293-4.

The second delivery with it saw Price push forward and edge a catch behind off Ben Coad.

Bracey got to three figures off 198 balls but the very next ball saw him edge Coad through to the diving Tattersall and at 314-6 Gloucestershire still had work to do.

But Graeme van Buuren (51 not out) and Ben Charlesworth (43 not out) batted confidently to secure the draw.

Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network.