DURHAM skipper Paul Collingwood will celebrate his 40th birthday today basking in the glory of a remarkable four-wicket win at Edgbaston.

After helping century-maker Keaton Jennings in a match-winning stand of 111, the captain said: “It was one of the best wins I have been involved with.

“After Chris Woakes took nine wickets with international-class bowling many teams would have crumbled. But we keep fighting and we scrapped our way back into it on a ground where we have had some tough times recently.

“James Weighell deserved to be on the winning side for taking nine wickets in the match and Keaton made a magnificent hundred.”

Although Jennings eventually fell for 113 and Collingwood was out for 44 when only ten were needed, Durham knocked off the 84 runs required at the start of the fourth day in 80 minutes.

In murky conditions, with the floodlights on, Collingwood got the morning off to a positive start by driving Keith Barker's first ball wide of mid-off for three.

Two balls later Jennings drove a four through extra cover and a single brought eight runs off the over, despite a fairly defensive field.

“I like to stay busy in a run chase,” said Collingwood. “We had look for opportunities to score and it was a relief to get those runs in the first over. It helped to get the footwork going.

“I told the players before the start to back themselves and when Ryan Pringle came in he was very positive.

“The club is going through a difficult time financially, but we keep producing high quality players and we want to keep the backbone of this side. If you can bring through young players and still keep winning it's a bonus.”

After two successive wins with an unchanged team Durham are second in the table behind Lancashire, the team they beat last week.

Highly-fancied Warwickshire had thrashed Durham on each of their last four visits to Edgbaston and looked like doing so again when they led by 123 on first innings.

But they provided meek resistance yesterday, their defensive field including a third man at the expense of an extra slip.

Jennings, who resumed on 88, took advantage with the two runs off the edge which took him to his third hundred of the season off 197 balls.

The previous day's dangerman, Chris Wright, was punished by both batsmen for dropping short and Collingwood followed a cut for four with a leg glance which was helped over the boundary by the diving Barker at fine leg.

Oliver Hannon-Dalby replaced Barker and kept it tight, but with the target down to 50 Warwickshire needed wickets yet persisted with one slip.

Skipper Ian Bell, standing at mid-off, looked resigned to defeat and Durham had the target down to 42 before he turned to spinner Jeetan Patel.

Jennings took two off his first ball but shouldered arms to the fifth, which went straight on to hit his off stump, ending the stand of 111.

Wright switched ends and Pringle settled any nerves by driving him firmly over the slow outfield to the cover boundary.

Collingwood survived a big appeal for a bat-pad catch in Patel's next over and two balls later the spinner beat both the batsman and the keeper to hand Durham four byes.

Pringle clipped Wright off his toes for four through square leg, but the threat form Patel was obvious and in his next over Collingwood failed to connect with a swipe and a heave. The first resulted in four more byes and the second saw him fall lbw for 44.

With ten needed, Weighell leg-glanced Wright for four and took a single before Pringle belted the seamer to the mid-wicket boundary to finish unbeaten on 19 With the scores level, Weighell edged a drive at Patel for the winning runs to cap his own memorable performance.