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By Richard Sydenham
MANCHESTER, England, June 8 - West Indies suffered
an embarrassing batting collapse to end their first innings on
229 and give England control of the third test on the second day
at Old Trafford on Friday .
The tourists were making steady progress in reply to
England's 370 when they reached 216 for four only to lose their
last six wickets for 13 runs in 44 balls. Their innings lasted
just 52.4 overs.
Spinner Monty Panesar to four wickets for 50 runs and seamer
Ryan Sidebottom three for 48 to gave England a healthy first
innings lead of 141.
England reached 34 for one before the close of play after
opener Andrew Strauss's barren spell continued when he was lbw
to pace bowler Fidel Edwards without scoring. He is without a
fifty in his last 15 test innings.
Alastair Cook was 12 not out, though appeared to have
survived a good caught behind appeal off Corey Collymore, and
captain Michael Vaughan was on 10.
"It was very disappointing, obviously," West Indies coach
David Moore told reporters.
"I thought that (Runako) Morton, (Shivnarine) Chanderpaul,
(Devon) Smith had worked pretty hard and (Dwayne) Bravo chipped
in to get us into a good position.
"I thought there were some poor shots played," he added. "It
led to a situation where we went from being in a very good
position at tea time to a very poor position and bowling again
in the same day.
"We wanted to give our bowlers a rest but we didn't bat well
enough to do that."
STARTED BRIGHTLY
England started the day brightly, adding 74 to their
overnight total as Ian Bell was out for 97.
West Indies then lost stand-in captain Daren Ganga lbw to
Steve Harmison in the three overs possible before lunch.
Harmison struggled with his line all day and though he
occasionally showed evidence of the form which brought him 11
wickets on the ground against Pakistan last year he was largely
disappointing and erratic, as was Liam Plunkett.
Harmison's other wicket to dismiss Runako Morton (35) was a
frustrating reminder of his capabilities as the batsman edged a
lifter to Strauss at first slip.
West Indies slumped to 157 for four when Devon Smith fell to
Panesar seven balls after tea to give the left-arm spinner his
50th test victim.
The six-wicket burst to follow would have dented West
Indies' morale after what had been a promising comeback match
following their record defeat in the second test at Headingley.
Dwayne Bravo edged Sidebottom to the wicketkeeper for 24,
Denesh Ramdin was caught from a mistimed pull shot at square
leg, also off Sidebottom. Then Panesar had Darren Sammy and
Jerome Taylor caught close in.
Top scorer Shivnarine Chanderpaul joined the procession and
his lone resistance of 50 off 78 balls was ended when he drove
Sidebottom to cover. Panesar wrapped up the innings by having
Corey Collymore caught at slip.