Durham bowler Ottis Gibson this afternoon became the 79th bowler in first-class cricket to take all ten wickets when he single-handedly dismissed Hampshire for 115.
Gibson, 38, becomes the first player to manage the feat since Debisish Mohanty in 2000-01, and first player in county cricket since Richard Johnson took 10 for 45 for Middlesex in 1994.
On eight wickets today, he was made to wait, rather inevitably by the rain, before he had David Griffiths caught behind and then bowled James Bruce for a first-ball duck to claim figures of 10 for 47 in the County Championship Division One match at Chester-le-Street.
They were the second best bowling figures ever recorded against Hampshire - way back in 1870 William Hickton bagged 10-46 for Lancashire at Old Trafford.
No Hampshire player has ever taken all 10 wickets in an innings - the best figures being Bob Cottam's 9-25 at Old Trafford in 1965.
Gibson's sensational performance is the joint 29th best bowling figures of all time in first class cricket history.
The best remains the 10-10 taken by Hedley Verity for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire at Headingley in 1932.
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