Paul Terry cannot recall a day to compare with the last day of Hampshire's championship match against Durham at the Rose Bowl.

Hampshire are now bottom of Division 2 after taking 12 points from their fourth rain affected draw of the season.

A draw seemed inevitable when Durham resumed on 107-2 but an astonishing 17 wickets fell in the day - the first three in one over from Alan Mullally - which ended with Nicky Phillips blocking out the last over from Wasim Akram.

Terry said: "I can't recall too many days like that, particularly on a good fourth-day wicket. It looked like it was heading for a draw but to nearly pinch it like we did just shows the ability that we have in the side.

"There was a lot of disappointment in that we had got so far but not got the win, but to get 17 wickets in 78 overs was a great effort and just shows what can happen.

"We were trying to get a wicket every fifth over throughout the day and it was a great all-round performance to have them nine down in their second innings."

Durham had added 68 runs on Saturday morning before Mullally's three-wicket maiden removed Gary Pratt, Nicky Peng and Danny Law.

Then, in the following over, debutant James Lowe became the fourth wicket to fall in eight balls when he was trapped lbw by Wasim Akram, who went on to bowl Phil Mustard and Phillips, before Ed Giddins removed Neil Killeen and the injured Dewald Pretorius, who was batting with a runner.

Durham were asked to follow on 221 runs behind and they lost both their openers before tea. Lowe became the first of Robin Smith's four close catches and then Durham skipper Jon Lewis failed to score a 50 in a championship match for the first time this season when he edged Dimitri Mascarenhas to Simon Katich at first slip.

Alan Mullally and Shaun Udal only bowled six overs between them in Durham's second innings but Katich's chinamen proved too much after tea, when he removed the rest of the visitors' top order in taking 3-39 - his best effort with the ball for Hampshire.

A trademark inswinging yorker from Wasim had proved too much for Danny Law and Durham were soon reduced to 63-7, but Terry admitted that the eighth wicket partnership between Phil Mustard and Nicky Phillips "proved crucial".

It lasted 17 overs before Mustard was caught by Smith at silly mid-off after prodding forward to Udal. That gave Hampshire hope that turned to expectation when Killeen became the last of Smith's three catches at short leg.

It was thought that eight balls were left to take the last wicket but an extra over was squeezed in, leaving Phillips to block out the last six balls from Wasim.

Pretorius faced three balls while batting with a runner but Phillips proved to be the thorn in Hampshire's side, facing 86 balls for his unbeaten 31 after coming in at number nine.

"We got a lot out of the game," added Terry. "Alan Mullally was one of the positives. He's been struggling to get wickets in the four-day game but got things going for us. He and Shaun didn't bowl much in the second innings, that was a gut feeling of John Crawley's, so overall it turned out to be a good all-round performance.

"Wasim showed real class when the ball was swinging around and Simon (Katich) is going to get more and more important to us when we get some sun and the wickets start to dry out."