Steve Harmison leads more celebrations for England

Steve Harmison was in destructive form as West Indies crumbled in the face of his hostile bowling at The Oval.

The Durham paceman took 6-46 as West Indies were all out for 152 in their first innings, and followed up with 2-13 as they reached 84-2 following on.

England made 470 as their lower order, including Harmison, made the Windies pay for some ragged bowling.

Opener Chris Gayle made Test history in West Indies' second innings by hitting fours off all the balls of an over.

But despite that brief episode, and a defiant 79 from Brian Lara, it was all England on Friday.

West Indies had made a good start, removing Andrew Flintoff and Geraint Jones inside the first four overs of the day, but they failed to make the breakthrough count.

The double loss left England at 321-7, but Ashley Giles hit a flurry of boundaries through the off-side as West Indies bowlers Dwayne Bravo and Dwayne Smith fed his favoured area.

Hopefully I can get the better of Lara tomorrow Steve Harmison Quotes: Harmison looks ahead

Giles and Matthew Hoggard added a remarkable 87 runs off 119 balls as Giles matched his previous highest mark in Tests with 52 and Hoggard beat his previous best score in all forms of cricket to make 36.

West Indies made a series of errors in the field, Carlton Baugh twice at fault when Hoggard should have been caught and two possible run-outs going begging.

Finally, both Giles and Hoggard did fall to catches just before lunch as they continued to attack and at lunch England were 410-9.

The fun should have ended there for the home side but West Indies continued to struggle against the England tail.

MOST RUNS IN A TEST OVER Not even Gayle's six fours in a Hoggard over took him top of this particular tree 28: BC Lara (WI) (466444) off RJ Peterson (SA) at Jo'burg 2003-04 26: CD McMillan (NZ) (444464) off Younis Khan (Pak) at Hamilton 2000-01 25: AME Roberts (WI) (46266L) off IT Botham (Eng) at Trinidad 1980-81 Before Gayle's feat, six other batsman had also hit 24 in a Test over

Harmison smacked three sixes and three fours to equal his own best score in first-class cricket of 36.

He finished not out after James Anderson, having played an Adam Gilchrist-style ramp shot over the slips for four, was finally bowled by Gayle.

But by then, he and Harmison had added 60 for the final wicket off just 59 balls and all 11 players in the side had reached double-figures.

It was the first time that had happened for England since 1928.

England still had half the day for bowling and Harmison used rising deliveries just back of a length to dismiss Chris Gayle, well held by a diving Jones, and Sylvester Joseph, edging to gully.

Flintoff produced a ball that seamed away a fraction for Ramnaresh Sarwan to edge to Andrew Strauss in the slips and then, just after tea, Robert Key clung onto a remarkable chance at square leg.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul middled a pull shot off Hoggard and was stunned to see Key come up with the ball.

At this point Lara decided to play his shots and he had plenty of joy.

At times, Brian Lara did not know where to look on Friday

For the first time in the series, luck favoured him as two close shouts for lbw were declined, a couple of under-edges just missed the stumps and a few thrashes through the covers failed to go to hand.

But he also hit some dazzling shots, refusing to throw in the towel when Harmison ran through a middle order lacking the injured Smith, who had strained his side when bowling.

Jones, Strauss and Trescothick all accepted edged chances off Harmison then finally Lara himself was deceived by the Durham spearhead, top-edging a pull to fine leg.

West Indies began their follow-on with 15 overs remaining in the day.

Gayle soon took out his fury off Hoggard with those six boundaries in a single over, but England again had the last laugh, despite Gayle managing to reach 59 not out off 48 balls.

And again it was Harmison whose bowling was too hot for Joseph and Sarwan - Jones and Ian Bell taking superb catches.

England: MP Vaughan (Yorkshire, capt), ME Trescothick (Somerset), AJ Strauss (Middlesex), RWT Key (Kent), IR Bell (Warwickshire), A Flintoff (Lancashire), GO Jones (Kent, wkt), AF Giles (Warwickshire), MJ Hoggard (Yorkshire), SJ Harmison (Durham), JM Anderson (Lancashire).