End comes fast with 145;Lord146; Giles on track

Spinner Ashley Giles took five wickets as England crushed West Indies by 210 runs in the first test on Monday, their seventh victory in eigh...

Spinner Ashley Giles took five wickets as England crushed West Indies by 210 runs in the first test on Monday, their seventh victory in eight tests. Giles completed match figures of nine for 210 to help dismiss the touring side for 267 in their second innings, with Shivnarine Chanderpaul left unbeaten on 97 after his second defiant knock of the game.

Giles had struck the crucial blow in the morning session when West Indies captain Brian Lara was bowled for 44 by a delivery which spun sharply out of the foot holes, the slow left-armer8217;s 100th test wicket.

Debutant Dwayne Bravo 10 then gave Giles a simple return catch and four balls later seamer Matthew Hoggard tempted Ridley Jacobs one to edge a catch to Graham Thorpe in the slips.

Man-of-the-match Giles had Tino Best and Pedro Collins stumped to complete second-innings figures of five for 81, and with Steve Harmison and Andrew Flintoff grabbing a wicket each England polished off the tail quickly.

Chanderpaul, who made 128 not out in the first innings, farmed the bowling in the latter stages but was left three runs short of emulating England captain Michael Vaughan by scoring a century in each innings.

England beat West Indies 3-0 earlier this year, their first series win in the Caribbean since 1968, and completed a 3-0 victory over New Zealand on home soil last month.

They remain in second place in the ICC test championship behind Australia. Reuters

SCOREBOARD

Story continues below this ad

England 1st innings: 568
West Indies 1st innings: 416
England 2nd innings: 325-5 declared
West Indies 2nd innings: C Gayle b Harmison 81, D Smith lbw Giles 6, R Sarwan lbw Hoggard 4, B Lara b Giles 44, S Chanderpaul not out 97, D Bravo c and b Giles 10, R Jacobs c Thorpe b Hoggard 1, O Banks b Harmison 0, T Best st Jones b Giles 3, P Collins st Jones b Giles 2, F Edwards c Jones b Flintoff 2
Extras: b-5, lb-9, nb-3 17
Total: all out, 79.3 overs 267
Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-35, 3-102, 4-172, 5-194, 6-195, 7-200, 8-203, 9-247
Bowling: Hoggard 14-2-65-2, Harmison 21-2-78-2 nb-3, Giles 35-9-81-5, S Jones 8-3-29-0, Flintoff 1.3-1-0-1