Key-ed up England turn the heat on Windies

Giles came to the fore after the interval, however, first slowing the run rate with some neat bowling and then taking two wickets in four balls.

First Devon Smith played on for 45 and then Chris Gayle, who had looked well set, was adjudged lbw for 66 playing a sweep.

Matthew Hoggard weighed in with the wicket of Ramnaresh Sarwan, lbw for one. Hoggard was the first to utilise the famous slope and make the ball nip back.

Giles went on to remove an annoyed Brian Lara for 11, West Indies’ captain given out by Daryl Harper for a faint edge to wicketkeeper Geraint Jones.

However, he could equally have been dismissed lbw as the ball brushed his pad before Jones gathered.

Giles, so often criticised for negative tactics, bowled 20 overs for 58 runs as he became England’s main strike bowler for the day, upstaging world number two Steve Harmison who went for 42 runs from nine overs. At the close Shivnarine Chanderpaul was 41 not out with Dwayne Bravo on 30. (Reuters)

BRIEF SCORES

England: 568 all out (R Key 221, A Strauss 137, M Vaughan 103; P Collins 4/113, D Bravo 3/74) vs West Indies: 208 for 4 (C Gayle 66, D Smith 45, S Chanderpaul 41 n.o., D Bravo 30 n.o.; A Giles 3/58).