West Indies Shivnarine Chanderpaul MANCHESTER, England (CMC):
Shivnarine Chanderpaul's 15th Test hundred was topped by another decisive bowling performance from Monty Panesar that handed England a 60-run victory over West Indies in the third Test yesterday.
Chanderpaul was undefeated on 116 - his first Test hundred in two years - as West Indies, chasing 455 to win, were dismissed for 394 in their second innings about half-hour after lunch on the fifth and final day at Old Trafford.
The result was formalised when Corey Collymore was caught at forward short leg off Panesar flicking a flat, fast, full-length delivery into his pad and into the grateful right hand of Ian Bell - a dismissal which was referred to the TV Replay umpire for adjudication.
Panesar, England's patka-wearing left-arm spinner, bowled unchanged throughout the day and ended with six wickets for 126 runs from 49 overs that gave him match figures of 10 for 99 which earned him the Man-of-the-Match award.
Fast bowler Steve Harmison gained a shot of confidence when he ended with four for 95 from 33 overs, including two of the last five West Indies wickets.
West Indies now trail the four-Test series 0-2, after the first Test at Lord's was drawn, and they also lost the second Test at Leeds by an innings and 283 runs - their heaviest defeat in Tests.
Fourth and final Test
The fourth and final Test starts on Friday at the Riverside Ground in Chester-Le-Street which is home to the English county club, Durham.
The defeat for West Indies gave England their fourth straight series success over the Caribbean side and made Michael Vaughan his country's most successful Test captain with 21 wins.
Chanderpaul reached his landmark, when he turned his 223rd ball from Steve Harmison into the mid-wicket region for a single. It was the former West Indies captain's first Test hundred since his undefeated 153 against Pakistan at Bridgetown.
The mountain, however, was too much for the visitors to climb, as Chanderpaul ran out of partners, after West Indies continued from their bedtime total of 301 for five.
The visitors stumbled to 379 for seven at the interval, after Panesar removed Denesh Ramdin for 34 and Darren Sammy for 25 to weaken any real chances West Indies had of completing an unlikely victory.
Ramdin had started confidently, when he stepped away and cut Panesar square for the fifth of his six fours and next over, he upper-cut Harmison to third man for another boundary.
Wicketkeeper undone
The West Indies wicketkeeper/ batsman was undone, however, when a delivery from Panesar spat from the hard, bouncy pitch and he was caught at slip off the glove. He added 62 for the sixth wicket with Chanderpaul.
Sammy entered looking to play as memorable an innings as he had bowled on Saturday when he captured seven wickets. He nervously negotiated Panesar's awkward bounce and sharp turn to score 25 before he gave a simple return catch to the spinner.
After lunch, the last vestige of hope for West Indies was snuffed out, when Harmison hastened the end with two 'throat-balls' - the first, Jerome Taylor cuffed to forward short; the second, Fidel Edwards sparred to gully before Panesar fittingly had the final say.
