CHESTER-LE-STREET, England (CMC):

Proving there is life left in the old man, former Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Ottis Gibson collected all 10 wickets in an innings to bowl Durham into a healthy position against Hampshire in their English County Champion-ship match yesterday.

The 38-year-old Gibson captured 10 wickets for 47 from 17.3 overs, as Hampshire were dismissed for 115, in reply to Durham's first innings total of 252 on the third day of the match at the Riverside.

Mark Stoneman then scored 50 to lead Durham to 114 for two when stumps were drawn to hand the home team a lead of 251.

"I've been around long enough to know that next week I might not take any wickets, so I still won't look much further than tomorrow [today]," Gibson said.

"I wasn't going to bowl after lunch, but the captain said I wasn't going to get many more chances to take all 10 at my age.

"It couldn't have worked out better for me because both times I started to feel tired, I got a break, first for lunch, then with the rain."

Gibson completed his haul in three continuous spells either side of lunch and after a rain interruption to become the first bowler to manage the feat since Debasish Mohanty took 10 for 46 for East South against South Zone in the Indian first-class championship, and first player in County cricket Richard Johnson's 10 for 45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire 13 years ago.

After taking his eighth wicket, he was made to wait by the rain, before he had David Griffiths caught behind and then bowled James Bruce for a first-ball duck.

Remarkable comeback

Gibson's performance has been the high point of a remarkable comeback which began with Leicestershire three years ago, after he had worked on advancing his coaching credentials.

Rain had washed out the previous day's cricket, but Hampshire managed to take the last three Durham wickets for the addition of five runs.

Durham captain Dale Benken-stein, who played a few seasons in the Barbados Division 1 club championship for Wanderers, was last man out for the top score of 114.

But Gibson put the skids on Hampshire when he picked up five wickets before the lunch interval and returned after the rain stoppage to complete the demolition job and become the 79th bowler in first-class cricket to take 10 wickets in an innings.