England beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the fourth and final Test at Riverside Stadium on Tuesday, a result that saw them win the series 3-0.
England, set 110 for victory on the last day, finished on 111-3 with captain Michael Vaughan 48 not out and Paul Collingwood five not out.
All-rounder Collingwood, who’d scored 128 in the first innings on his Durham home ground, finished the match by cutting Chris Gayle for four.
Left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, England’s leading bowler of the series with 23 wickets at under 19 apiece, set up this victory by taking 5-46 as the West Indies were dismissed for 222 in their second innings.
Panesar’s haul included West Indies cornerstone Shivnarine Chanderpaul, final man out for 70, who’d batted for nearly 18 hours since last being dismissed.
The 32-year-old Guyanese left-hander, who made 136 not out in the first innings of this match after his 116 not out in the third Test at Old Trafford, was the only West Indies’ batsman to score a hundred in the series.
West Indies have now gone 20 Tests without a win.
England and West Indies play the first of two back-to-back Twenty20 matches at The Oval on June 28 before facing each other in three one-day internationals in the first week of July. — AFP
