Eng on way to make big lead against WI

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England were on the way to make a big lead against West Indies at Old Trafford Saturday with Alastair Cook approaching his second half-century of the match, reports Cricinfo.
Michael Vaughan was the lone casualty, again falling with a large score on offer, but West Indies engineered few chances and became increasingly ragged throughout the session.
Their main hope of staying in the match was through early wickets, but Fidel Edwards could not break through during his initial three-over burst.
Vaughan produced two elegant drives - a back-foot effort through cover especially impressive - to set England in motion and Daren Ganga quickly went into damage limitation mode. Corey Collymore plugged away and Edwards' speed was replaced by Darren Sammy's steady medium-pace.
Sammy became the most threatening bowler as he troubled Cook with seam movement. West Indies were convinced they had Cook caught behind on 30, but replays supported Aleem Dar's decision, unlike yesterday evening when Cook clearly escaped an inside edge to Denesh Ramdin that Billy Bowden failed to spot.
Apart from a few early bouncers from Edwards, Vaughan progressed without alarm until, almost out of nowhere, Sammy stuck out his right hand and pulled off a fine return catch as Vaughan played a fraction early. For the second time Vaughan was perplexed about how he'd fallen, but Sammy savoured the moment.
However, without Chris Gayle's offspin Ganga had been forced to turn to Shivnarine Chanderpaul's very part-time legspin. The last of his eight Test wickets came in 2002, but he showed up some of the seamers by at least landing the ball on a length. When Vaughan fell, Ganga rightly wound Edwards up for another fling and it produced an entertaining duel with Kevin Pietersen, who never takes a backward step even against the quickest bowlers.
West Indies, though, did nothing to help themselves. Their fielding was awful, the run-savers were often caught napping at mid on and mid off and the batsmen picked on their targets, especially Jerome Taylor. The session was summed up by two woeful pieces of cricket; Collymore failed to even get a hand on Cook's top-edged hook and Taylor's limp effort to stop Pietersen's straight drive, in the last over before lunch, would have shamed many a club player.