Middlesex collapse after Shah's heroics

Owais Shah made the highest championship score at Durham's Riverside ground before becoming a victim of Middlesex's panic-stricken collapse in search of a fifth batting point.

At 354 for three in the 118th over they still had 12 overs to reach 400. But 11 overs later they were all out for 386, with Shah sixth out for 190.

In building so impressively on his seventh first-class hundred he added 50 to his own previous best, made against Yorkshire at Lord's three years ago.

Shah hit 18 fours and added three sixes once he had passed 150 before he swept his 330th ball to short fine leg as Michael Gough's off-spin produced his first five-wicket haul in a spell of five for 12 in 29 balls.

The previous highest Championship score on the ground was Michael Vaughan's 177 in 1998, although Darryl Cullinan hit 200 not out for South Africa against Durham in the same season.

Shah and Stephen Fleming put on 248 in 78 overs for the third wicket before Fleming fell for 114, clipping Nicky Phillips to square leg.

There were ten balls left before the 130-over cut-off for bonus points when David Nash was last out, run out for 19.

Durham had to bat for 18 overs in poor light and five warning lights were already shining when Gough was caught off bat and pad off Tufnell, prompting the umpires to call a halt 45 minutes early.