Cork duly obliged.Twenty minutes after tea, Courtney Walsh's edge to Stewart gave victory to England by 72 runs, and very soon there were corks everywhere. The champagne has usually gone off before England get their hands on a bottle, but for once they have made their mark on a series before it is too late."I would like to point out to you chaps," Sir Raymond of Farsley said afterwards, "that the muddled thinking worked out very well." Ah well. This gave Cork figures of 3 for 7 in 45 balls, and gave England the real conviction that they would go on to win the match.Gough's value to the side is that even when he is not bowling well he has a Bothamesque ability to pick up wickets with nothing deliveries, as he did when Junior Murray was athletically caught at short leg by Weekes, and all that remained for England was to remove Ottis Gibson's dangerous hitting qualities from the occasion as quickly as possible. Adams was caught at second slip by Graeme Hick, which was also a bonus in that on England's last visit to the Caribbean, Hick's inability to pouch any edge from a left-hander was in direct contrast to his flypaper mitts for the right-handers.Richie Richardson's form is so abject that he was out for a duck playing across a rare delivery from Cork that did nothing other than go straight- on, and Cork and Fraser bowled so well either side of lunch that the West Indies played out seven consecutive maidens.Keith Arthurton, in fact, had still not scored when he turned his 40th delivery straight into the hands of forward short leg, where Paul Weekes of Middlesex was substituting for Graham Thorpe, off the field with a throat infection. Campbell was Cork's fifth victim, caught behind off the inside edge after five hours of searching in vain - Lara apart - for someone to keep him more than fleeting company.Cork's first wicket yesterday, with his eighth ball, was the invaluable one of that well-known limpet Jimmy Adams, and it was long odds yesterday against Lara getting out to a defensive push and Adams to a frenetic drive. Cork, however, is a more imaginative bowler than is his nickname (as you would hope with a soubriquet like "Corky") and after a first spell of 3 for 23, was whistled up again to take the last four wickets either side of tea.The one West Indian batsman to resist was, surprisingly, the inexperienced Sherwin Campbell, who was eighth out for 93 after an innings that contained long spells of block, with occasional bursts of bash. The two most likely candidates were Angus Fraser and Gough, but Fraser had one of those days when nothing would run for him, and Gough bowled in most places bar the right one.

Steven Rhodes is a better wicketkeeper than he looked last winter, but purely on Australian form, he would have got nowhere near it.After that it was all Cork, and just as well for England. Get those bloody gloves strapped on and let's hear no more about it."The pivotal moment yesterday was always going to be what happened to Brian Lara, and after the West Indies had skated away with 34 runs off the first 31 balls in chase of the 228 they required off their nine remaining wickets, things were beginning to look a trifle ominous.At that point, however, Darren Gough sent down an innocuous looking delivery, Lara's snick travelled fast and low, and a ball that would have landed five feet short of first slip was breathtakingly snaffled, left-handed, by the diving Stewart. However, while this Lord's pitch was no friend of batsmen, it was Cork's deadly late outswing, allied to pumped-up aggression, which propelled him to the best bowling figures, 7 for 43, by any England player in his first Test.However, it will also be argued (and probably no more vociferously than by a silvery-haired fox over two pints of Tetleys in a pub in Farsley) that when this victory is dusted down for forensic analysis, the fingerprints will belong to Raymond Illingworth.It was the England chairman who overturned the original selection, placed a paternal hand on Alec Stewart's shoulder, and in that familiarly democratic way of his, whispered timidly into Alec's ear: "Now then, lad. Not this time.For all England's supposed shortfall in talent, it is a longstanding deficiency in the cardiac region that has mostly been responsible for a record that has made Mrs Hubbard's cupboard resemble Mike Gatting's larder, so it was appropriate that the architect of yesterday's decisive final thrust should have been Derbyshire's Dominic Cork.Cork has always had a big heart, and question marks about his talent were largely the result of his taking his wickets on the green pastures of the County Ground, Derby, where, it is alleged, captains win the toss and elect to break. Raymond for Prime Minister? You can't entirely rule it out.Since David Gower's side turned 0-1 into 1-1 in India in 1984-85, England have had no less than 11 opportunities to bounce straight back from defeat in the first Test of a series, and have responded with all the spring- heeled, rubber ball qualities of a cow pat.

reports from Lord's England 283 and 336 West Indies 324 and 223 England win by 72 runs They were queuing up for souvenir scorecards here yesterday, and while it is not quite true to say that William Caxton was cranking away on the presses the last time England beat the West Indies here, a sequence of once every 38 years hardly qualifies as old hat. Sir Gary Sobers and his cousin, David Holford, made hundreds and saved the West Indies in 1966. Then in 1973, centuries from Sobers, Rohan Kanhai and Bernard Julien took them to a huge victory in Ray Illingworth's last Test match.The weather played a part in drawn games in 1976 and 1980, and then in 1984 Gordon Greenidge's phenomenal 214 not out saw the West Indies home by nine wickets.For their next two visits the West Indies were unstoppable, but their winning sequence has now ended, and England will this morning no longer be regarding Lord's as their unlucky ground.. Putting on an England cap should invariably start the adrenalin, but surprisingly this has not always been enough.In 1928 at Lord's, the West Indies played their first-ever Test match, which they lost by an innings and 58 runs and they lost there again in 1933 and 1939. In 1950, however, they won by 326 runs, with Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine sharing those 18 wickets.Seven years later, after Peter May and Colin Cowdrey's stand of 411 in the first Test at Edgbaston, England's batsmen confirmed that "Ram and Val" had been well and truly conquered with victory by an innings and 11 wickets for Trevor Bailey.In 1963, there was that extraordinary draw I wrote about on Saturday, when England were six runs short of victory with one wicket standing.

Surely after this victory the side can only emerge from the pavilion at Edgbaston on Thursday week fired up in the same way. Yet with England, this has happened all too often in recent years.At Lord's, England have had 11 players consumed with a burning desire to win. It is extraordinary that a team can have it in one match and then leave it in the dressing-room for the next. Suddenly, England were again playing with passion, just as they did so memorably last year at The Oval against South Africa.