Steve Harmison, the 25-year-old in his 13th test, captured career-best figures of 7-12 to send the West Indies tumbling to 47 all out and give England a 1-0 lead in the four-test series for the Wisden Trophy and give the visitors a chance of achieving their quest of becoming the first English team in 36 years to secure a series victory in the Caribbean. But after three days of hard cricket it was the beanpole Harmison, whose " magical bowling" as skipper Michael Vaughan later put it, that was the difference between the two sides.

Harmison's figures were the best ever at Sabina Park surpassing the 7-34 by Trevor Bailey in 1953-54. Four of Harmison's victims: Ramnaresh Sarwan (who bagged a pair) Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Tino Best and Fidel Edwards all made ducks while skipper Brian Lara also made a duck falling to Matthew Hoggard. The West Indies' 47 all out is their lowest-ever test score. The previous lowest was the 51 all out made by Brian Lara's West Indies against Steve Waugh's Australians in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1998-99. "It was inept batting," Lara later admitted at the post-match press

conference. When play began at 9.35am (Jamaican time) yesterday to make up for the minutes lost because rain over the past three days, not even the most accurate fortune-teller could have predicted that the match would have been over before lunch.

But as it was, the West Indies batsmen failed to cope with a pitch that continued to offer the bowlers some bounce and capitulated in 25.3 overs the wickets falling in the 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 22nd, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th overs.

The highest scorer was wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs, who counter-attacked in making 15 from 22 balls in just about half an hour's batting with three fours. Jacobs and Hinds put together the highest partnership of the innings, 20 for the sixth wicket in seven overs, the longest dry spell for the England bowlers.

Apart from Jacobs, first innings century-maker Devon Smith was the only other batsman to reach double figures. He made 12 in 65 minutes from 42 balls with one four. Gayle, who had scored all eight of the runs as the West Indies resumed on 8-0, was first to go. He cut hard at the fourth delivery of Harmison's fourth over. The ball flew head high to Graham Thorpe at third slip who clung onto the catch, the force of the shot sending him tumbling

backwards and the West Indies were 13-1 Sarwan was next to go off the final ball of Harmison's next over adjudged LBW although television replays showed the trajectory of the ball as

missing the top of the stumps. Chanderpaul, rapped on the forearm by Harmison, then got an inside edge onto his stumps and the West Indies, 28 behind on first innings were in trouble on 15-3.

It was soon 16-4 when Hoggard got into the act. Lara dabbled at one, nicked it and was safely taken by Andrew Flintoff and second slip. Like in the first innings hopes again rested on Smith and Ryan Hinds but there was to be no repeat act this time. Smith had batted well through the difficult period. He had steered Harmison through the slip cordon for four but then ducked into a short ball, which probably unsettled him. In Hoggard's next over Smith, losing patience drove a pitched up delivery straight back to the left of the bowler who grabbed it gleefully and threw it up in the air and the Windies were 21-5. Doughty fighter Ridley Jacobs responded to the crisis the only way he knows how. He came off the mark with a couple to mid-wicket then dispatched Hoggard past the widish mid-on fielder for four. Two balls later Jacobs smashed Hoggard high over mid-off for another boundary. And when Simon Jones replaced Hoggard, Jacobs hoisted him to the long-on boundary, making the shot look as simple as Simon's name. But Harmison was a different proposition. Jacobs received a let off when he cut hard at a delivery from Harmison only for Paul Collingwood at gully to put down the offering after getting both hands to it. However,

Harmison was not to be denied and Jacobs never knew what hit him. A short ball saw Jacobs trying to take evasive action but the ball hit him on the gloves and lobbed up in the air for Nasser Hussain to run around from silly-mid-off and take the catch behind wicketkeeper Chris Read. Tino Best was also unable to perform his first innings heroics. Backing away from a lifting delivery from Harmison, he fended the ball straight into the safe hands of Read while Hinds driving at Jones got a thin edge and was also caught behind. Sanford dropped first ball by Thorpe at fourth slip off Harmison, drove at another delivery and was plucked out by the safe hands of Marcus Trescothick at first slip while Edwards was squared up and offered Trescothick another slip catch again off Harmison

Set 20 for victory England raced to their target in 2.3 overs with

Vaughan leading the way with 11 not out while Trescothick was not out six at the end Trescothick took six runs from Best's first over including a steer to backward point for four but in Best's second over the batsman got the benefit of a caught behind appeal, the ball appearing to brush the batsman's gloves as he went for a pull shot. That was all the alarm there was, as Vaughan clobbered Hinds, who opened the bowling with Best, for a four first ball to the cover boundary and a six last ball over the midwicket fence.

Fittingly it was extras which contributed 60 in England's first

innings, which again contributed the winning run as Jacobs' throw at the stumps, missed and the batsmen ran through for a bye.