From the Sunday Times, the over-by-over story of the Windies being skittled for 47.
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Was this the greatest session in England’s Test history?
SIMON WILDE
88 minutes in heaven
Play on the fourth day, Sunday, started at 9.35am, 30 minutes early to make up for time lost. “The sun was shining and I thought it was going to be hard work,” said Vaughan, mindful that the first session would last 150 minutes. “I fully expected two really hard days.”
4th over (Harmison): Harmison completed his second over from the previous evening. He soon settled into a good rhythm and a better length, nipping it around off the seam. “I was much happier with the way I was bowling,” he said. “In the first innings I was too short.” Smith edged him to third man for four. Score: 12-0.
5th over (Hoggard): Hoggard began well with a maiden to Gayle. He was encouraged by a breeze blowing from left to right. This meant that when he didn’t quite get his wrist action right, the ball didn’t swing back but was carried by the breeze away from the left-handers. “They were left guessing, and that’s important,” said Troy Cooley, England’s fast bowling coach. Score: 12-0.
6th over (Harmison): Harmison kept up the pressure with another maiden. He too was happy bowling to left-handers because his open action helped him slant the ball across them. He beat Smith with his third ball. Score: 12-0.
7th over (Hoggard): another excellent over, Hoggard beating Gayle once and Smith twice. An appeal for caught behind against Smith was rejected by Bowden. The ball clipped a pad. The close fielders, hearing something, went up, but Hoggard missed the noise. “The wicket was bouncing and there was movement,” said Vaughan. “We made it uncomfortable. Would I like to have been batting? No.” Score: 13-0.
8th over (Harmison): Harmison hit Gayle on the glove and two balls later had him caught at third slip by Graham Thorpe, who picked up the ball late and did well to hold on. “I was pleased,” Thorpe said. “He could have scored 50 or 60 in the session.” Ramnaresh Sarwan came in to three slips and three gullies. Fletcher: “Harmy has put the frighteners on a few sides.” Score: 13-1.
9th over (Hoggard): Smith played out another maiden. West Indies had now scored one run in five overs since the restart, and the pressure was telling. Score: 13-1.
10th over (Harmison): the right-handed Sarwan, given an uncomfortable time by Harmison, fell leg-before. Harmison’s third maiden in a row. Score: 13-2.
11th over (Hoggard): another accurate over from Hoggard, who pinned down Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the new batsman, for five balls. “With wickets falling at the other end, I was just trying to bowl in good areas and keep the pressure on,” Hoggard said. “Vaughan was saying to me, ‘Don’t get bored, just keep doing what you’re doing’.” Score: 14-2.
12th over (Harmison): Chanderpaul, having been hit on the arm ducking into a bouncer the previous ball, was bowled through his legs off an inside edge. “You need a bit of luck,” Harmison said. England had achieved a key aim of getting Lara to the wicket while the ball was still moving. Score: 15-3.
13th over (Hoggard): Smith took a single off the second ball, bringing Lara, nursing a dislocated right index finger, on strike. “It’s easy to be intimidated bowling at Lara, but I was bowling well and in rhythm, and thought I’d just keep doing what I was doing,” Hoggard recalled. His third ball to Lara bounced a bit, which may have disconcerted him. The next was gift from the gods. “It was one of those balls when I didn’t get my action right and it didn’t swing. Fortunately the wind went whoosh! and it nipped away.” Lara, going back and across, was caught by Flintoff in the slips for the second time in the match.
“As soon as Lara went, you could sense something was happening,” Hoggard said. “They were four down and still behind our score. We were relieved the mainstay of their batting was gone and thought then we could bowl them out cheaply and have it over and done with.” Ashley Giles, another England player, said: “When Lara was out, the hairs on my neck stood up. I’d never played out here before, but knew the history.”
Senior batsmen Lara, Gayle, Sarwan and Chanderpaul had made just 45 runs in the game. “We didn’t bat properly,” Lara conceded. “We’re responsible for the situation we found ourselves in.” Score: 16-4.
14th over (Harmison): Smith edged another four — eight of the 12 runs Harmison conceded came from two streaky boundaries — then took a painful blow ducking into another bouncer. Score: 21-4.
15th over (Hoggard): having been out there since the start, Smith finally lost patience when Hoggard overpitched. He smashed the ball straight back at Hoggard, who held a brilliant, instinctive catch. “If I hadn’t caught it, it would have knocked my teeth out,” he said. West Indies had lost their top five batsmen for eight runs in eight overs. Score: 23-5.
16th over (Harmison): Ryan Hinds played a drive for two, the only straight scoring stroke played off Harmison in the entire innings. These were the last runs Harmison conceded. Score: 25-5.
17th over (Hoggard): having conceded five runs in six overs, Hoggard was hit for two boundaries by Ridley Jacobs, the first of which lifted West Indies into the lead. Score: 33-5.
18th-21st overs (Harmison and Jones): Jones took over from Hoggard, but Jacobs and Hinds got through four overs unscathed, adding only eight against more accurate bowling. Paul Collingwood, subbing for Mark Butcher, who sat out the rout with a bruised left arm, put down a hard chance in the gully off Harmison, but saved four runs. Score: 41-5.
22nd over (Harmison): Jacobs spliced a catch to short leg, and two balls later Tino Best was caught behind. Harmison would have had a third wicket in the over, but Thorpe dropped an easy chance off Sanford first ball. “I had too much time,” Thorpe said. “I had time to think to myself, ‘I can’t possibly drop this’.” Score: 41-7.
23rd over (Jones): Hinds caught behind. Score: 43-8.
24th over (Harmison): Vaughan posted eight slips and gullies. “Some of the older members of my team may have thought I was taking the mick, but I didn’t think the ball was going anywhere else.” Off the fifth ball, Sanford was caught at first slip. Score: 43-9.
25th over (Jones): Collymore and Edwards ran one leg bye, then another, before Collymore hit the last ball of the over for two to take West Indies past England’s score of 46, the lowest total between the sides. Score: 47-9.
26th over (Harmison): last man Edwards was caught at first slip by Trescothick, the 10th wicket to fall in 88 minutes. Hoggard, standing at about sixth slip, remembered the moment: “You could see everybody watching the ball. Then we all ran in as one. It was a fantastic feeling.”
Vaughan and Trescothick hit off the 20 runs England needed in 15 balls to complete a 10-wicket win 17 minutes before lunch. Vaughan described it as the most amazing session he’d known. “It was desperately tense for three days, like two boxers slugging it out,” he said. “Then somebody landed the killer blow.”