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June 11, 2007 (Link to Scorecard)

Michael Vaughan has become the most successful English Test Captain when his side beat West Indies by a relatively narrow margin of 60 runs in the third test at Old Trafford. Monty Panesar worked hard to take six wickets having bowled as many as 51.5 overs. Monty's first ever ten-wicket haul fetched him the Man of the Match award. Shivanrine Chanderpaul won lot of hearts by remaining unconquered with a hundred.

When the morning session of the final day got underway, England were just five wickets away from a series victory. Windies also had a realistic chance of winning looking at the fact that they needed 154 runs with five wickets in hand. Although Chanderpaul and Ramdin did put up a nice partnership of more than 50 runs yesterday, they had to start all over again today. That wasn't easy and Ramdin became the first casualty, falling very early in the day to Monty Panesar having got 34. A brief resistance then came from Chanderpaul as always and with him debutant Darren Sammy who was drawing some inspiration from his bowling heroics. Sammy cracked five fours in his 25 before he was beautifully deceived in the flight by Monty which saw a return catch. That wasn't going to be the end of the match with the tail getting exposed as Jerome Taylor hung in there with Chanderpaul to help West Indies go to the next session. Taylor's stand also helped Chanderpaul register his 15th hundred.

After the lunch break, it took just the 29 balls to remove the last three wickets for England. Steve Harmison removed the two fast bowlers Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards in the same over. Monty Panesar got his sixth wicket which was the last of the match when Collymore was caught at bat pad. For Monty Panesar, it was 6 for 137 in 51.5 overs while Harmison showed some shades of getting back in his own with 4 for 95 in 33 overs. From the West Indies, Chanderpaul was the hero undoubtedly with an unbeaten 116 with 12 fours having fought out for 257 balls.

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