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All-rounder Andrew Flintoff claimed his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket as West Indies collapsed on day one in Barbados.

The Windies lost their last seven wickets for 57 as they were all out for 224 despite fifties from Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Flintoff took the last two wickets with successive balls to finish with 5-58, while Steve Harmison took 3-42.

Marcus Trescothick fell cheaply as England reached 20-1 at stumps.

The tourists need only a draw to record their first Test series win in the Caribbean since 1968, but on this evidence a result looks certain either way.

Skipper Michael Vaughan was quick to insert the home side after winning the toss, with the Barbados pitch covered in patches of light grass.

It looked a wise decision as England picked up two early wickets with the ball seaming and swinging from the outset.

Matthew Hoggard, who left the field later in the day with a cramped calf muscle, struck in the fifth over, gaining a leg-before verdict over Chris Gayle with the ball looking to be too high and missing leg.

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It was the first of three lamentable decisions, with Daren Ganga surviving a perfectly good shout from Harmison before luck turned against him.

Ganga, who took 26 balls to get off the mark, was also dropped in slip by Graham Thorpe before finally falling lbw to Harmison, despite TV replays casting doubt on whether the ball would have hit the stumps.

At 20-2 the Windies looked to be there for the taking, but Brian Lara and Sarwan got the innings in order to progress the hosts to 71-2 at lunch.

England emerged from the break fearing they had let an opportunity slip, but the promising third-wicket stand lasted just 20 minutes into the new session.

The home captain was on his way for 36 when Flintoff squared him up and provoked an edge which Mark Butcher gobbled up at gully.

Poor fielding and doughty West Indian batting then contrived to frustrate England again, the fourth wicket taking the Windies along to 167-3 after Chanderpaul had been dropped by Butcher on 10.

Sarwan, whose previous four Test innings had totalled 34 runs, scrapped his way to his 19th Test half-century, scoring seven boundaries in the process.

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It was his best return of the series - his previous four innings yielded just 34 runs - but he was on his way when he edged driving to Harmison.

It was the turning point of the day, with the middle and lower order falling promptly and obligingly, including Chanderpaul in the slips to Flintoff for 50.

Harmison supplemented his gains with the scalp of the recalled Ryan Hinds, and Simon Jones, too short for the most part, removed Pedro Collins for his only scalp of the day.

But the tail belonged to Flintoff, who will be on a hat-trick next innings after removing Tino Best and Edwards with successive balls to finish the innings.

England's openers faced a tricky period before stumps, and Trescothick proved unequal to the task, continuing his poor run when bowled by Edwards for two, as he was in the first Test.

But Vaughan (12 not out) and Butcher (three not out) kept their nerve until the close.

England went into the game with an unchanged side for the third Test in a row, the first time they had done so since their victorious tour of Pakistan in the winter of 2000-01.

West Indies: C H Gayle, D Ganga, R R Sarwan, B C Lara (Capt) S Chanderpaul, R O Hinds, R D Jacobs (Wkt), T L Best, P T Collins C D Collymore, F H Edwards.

England: M E Trescothick, M P Vaughan (Capt), M A Butcher N Hussain, G P Thorpe, A Flintoff, C M W Read (Wkt), A F Giles M J Hoggard, S P Jones, S J Harmison.

Umpires: D B Hair, R E Koertzen.