LEEDS, July 1: England pace bowlers James Anderson and Steve Harmison took three wickets each to help bowl West Indies out for 159 in the triangular series One-day International at Headingley on Thursday.
England have suffered successive seven wickets defeats to West Indies and New Zealand batting first in the series so far and captain Michael Vaughan showed no hesitation in putting West Indies in to bat after winning the toss in the day/night encounter.
Anderson, who is no longer an automatic Test selection, demonstrated his usefulness to England's one-day outfit with three for 37 as West Indies were dismissed in 40.1 overs.
First he took the prize scalp of Brian Lara, the West Indies captain showing poor foot movement and dragging a wide, full ball onto his stumps for six. The 21-year-old pace bowler then had Dwayne Bravo caught behind by wicket-keeper Geraint Jones for five before Ridley Jacobs (2) played on to give Anderson his third wicket.
Earlier, Harmison utilised the swinging conditions to tempt Shivnarine Chanderpaul (3) and Dwayne Smith (2) to edge to Jones. He returned to bowl Ricardo Powell for 36, grabbing figures of three for 31.
Opener Chris Gayle made 23 before Ramnaresh Sarwan called for a dubious single and Gayle was run out by Vaughan. Paul Collingwood took a tremendous one-handed catch at gully to dismiss the dangerous Sarwan (46) off a log hop from occasional bowler Marcus Trescothick.
The previous two capitulations of 147 and 101 led England to include Andrew Flintoff solely as a batsman. He had been all but ruled out of the series because of a foot injury.
Scoreboard
WEST INDIES:
C.H. Gayle run out 23
S. Chanderpaul c Jones b Harmison 3
D.R. Smith c Jones b Harmison 2
R.R. Sarwan c C'ingwood b T'cothick 46
B.C. Lara b Anderson 6
D.J.J. Bravo c Jones b Anderson 5
R.D. Jacobs b Anderson 2
R.L. Powell b Harmison 36
I.D.R. Bradshaw c Jones b McGrath 12
R. Rampaul c Anderson b Gough 10
J.J.C. Lawson not out 0
EXTRAS (LB-4, W-9, NB-1) 14
TOTAL (all out, 40.1 overs) 159
FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-29, 3-29, 4-40, 5-62, 6-72, 7-135, 8-137, 9-159.
BOWLING: Gough 8.1-2-23-1; Harmison 10-2-31-3; Anderson 8-1-37-3; McGrath 10-1-36-1; Trescothick 4-0-28-1.
ENGLAND: M.E. Trescothick, M.P. Vaughan, R.W.T. Key, A.J. Strauss, A. Flintoff, P.D. Collingwood, G.O. Jones, A. McGrath, D. Gough, S.J. Harmison, J.M. Anderson.
UMPIRES: M.R. Benson (England) and D.J. Harper (Australia).
TV UMPIRE: J.W. Lloyds (England).
MATCH REFEREE: G.R. Viswanath (India). -Reuters