Anderson also frustrated the West Indies bowlers on day three

James Anderson believes England will take advantage of a helpful pitch and bowl West Indies out twice in the last two days of the second Test at Durham.

The Lancashire seamer took 3-36 as the tourists ended day three on 94-3, 475 runs behind England's 569-6 and needing a further 276 to avoid the follow-on.

"There's more in the pitch than people think, bend your back you get something out of it," Anderson told BBC Sport.

"Hopefully we can bowl them out cheaply and enforce the follow-on."

Anderson bowled well either side of a break for bad light, cleaning up Devon Smith before trapping Chris Gayle leg before as West Indies slumped to 38-2.

He then had Lendl Simmons caught in the slips by England captain Andrew Strauss.

"The ball was coming out nicely," Anderson said.

"It didn't swing too much but I got enough balls in the right areas to ask questions and I got a decision that went a little bit in our favour."

That decision saw the end of Gayle who was given out by umpire Asoka de Silva with replays suggesting the ball would have gone high and wide of the stumps.

But England know they need to take another 17 wickets on the final two days, with rain forecast, to win the second and final Test.

"It's going to be a long couple of days as a bowling unit but we know what's to come and we're used to bowling long spells," said Anderson.

"Hopefully we can put pressure on them by bowling them out cheaply in the first innings.

"The weather is out of our control so we have just got to concentrate on our own game and see what we can do with the ball."

Anderson's three-wicket haul ended a fine all-round display after he had withstood a hostile spell from West Indies paceman Fidel Edwards in the morning.

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Edwards peppered Anderson, who had come in at the end of the first day as a nightwatchman, for nearly an hour.

"I don't know what I've done, you'll have to ask him," Anderson said when asked how he'd upset Edwards.

"Every time I come out to bat, he seems to crank it up a bit. It spurs me on. I really didn't want to get out to him."

The West Indies need to win the Test to retain the Wisden Trophy they won in the Caribbean earlier this year.

But coach John Dyson conceded his side are unlikely to do so.

"It will be extremely difficult to win the match from here," said the former Australia opening batsman.

"It's not impossible but it will take an amazing effort."

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