England end series in style

Shivnarine Chanderpaul batted for nearly 18 hours before being dismissed © Getty Images

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England's bid to round off an impressive start to the international summer with a victory over West Indies came to fruition as they bowled them out for 222.

They went on to achieve their target of 110 in 21.4 overs, winning by seven wickets.

Two-nil up in the series, England headed into the last day’s play at the Riverside - which was delayed by half an hour because of rain - bidding for a third successive Test win and a triumphant climax to Peter Moores’ first series in charge.

West Indies, who resumed on 83 for three in their second innings, were faced with batting for the majority of the day to stave off the threat of a defeat that appeared unlikely on Monday morning but gathered momentum with every ball.

Having set England a small total to win, a twist in fortunes for West Indies saw Alastair Cook edge behind to Dwayne Bravo for seven as the hosts lost their first wicket with the score on 16.

Fidel Edwards was unlucky to have Andrew Strauss dropped at first slip by Chris Gayle with the score on 29, but Daren Powell made up for it moments later when he bowled the opener between bat and pad, with England still needing 81 more to win.

The introduction of Kevin Pietersen to the crease raised the impetus of the innings as England raced towards their target. Michael Vaughan also got in on the act, as the light began to dim, ending on 48 not out.

Matthew Hoggard dismissed Chris Gayle without him adding to his score © Getty Images

But with five runs needed for victory, Pietersen tried to drive and succeeded in edging Gayle to Marlon Samuels as the West Indies were able to savour a small crumb of comfort.

Paul Collingwood (five) scored the winning runs, smacking a Gayle long-hop to the cover boundary for four.

England's first task this morning had been to break the resistance of Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

They duly did that when Gayle was caught behind by Matt Prior off Matthew Hoggard without adding to his overnight score of 52.

That brought Bravo to the crease and he got off the mark with a cover drive to the boundary for four, which also brought up West Indies' 100.

A gloved boundary from Bravo managed to put West Indies ahead as they aimed to put the game out of England's reach.

But half an hour after lunch, with a further 31 runs added, Bravo attempted a lofted drive to Monty Panesar, which he skewed high into the air and into the hands of Ryan Sidebottom at mid-off.

He had made 43 off 74 deliveries and had begun to increase his scoring rate after lunch with several audacious shots, as the England bowlers consistently bowled short at him to try to force him into making the mistake.

Monty Panesar celebrates the wicket of all-rounder Dwayne Bravo for 43 © Getty Images

Bravo was shortly followed back to the pavilion by Samuels who was undone by the turn and bounce of Panesar and got an outside edge which popped up to Collingwood at slip for an easy catch.

Panesar was once again to the fore as he got plenty of spin and drift into Denesh Ramdin. The wicket-keeper tried to play the ball to the leg side, missed and saw it hit the top of off stump.

Powell managed four before the blood rushed to his head and he pulled Steve Harmison high into the air to Vaughan at short mid-off, in a carbon copy of his first-innings dismissal.

A full and straight delivery from Harmison accounted for Edwards as the stumps shattered and cartwheeled out of the ground.

Last man Corey Collymore combined with Chanderpaul in a partnership of 28 before the former was dismissed.

Chanderpaul had remained resolute at the crease, falling short of 18 batting hours since he was last dismissed by an England bowler by five minutes, when Panesar mopped up the innings by bowling him as he attempted to sweep, giving the spinner his fifth wicket.

Man-of-the-match and West Indies' man-of-the-series Chanderpaul scored unbeaten hundreds in his previous two innings and reached his sixth consecutive Test half-century, making 70, with his average for the series ending on 148.66.