MANCHESTER, England (CMC) - West Indies marked the Test debut of Darren Sammy with easily their most impressive cricket of the series in the third Test against England yesterday. Gaining bounce and movement from the helpful Old Trafford pitch, and bowling more consistently than in the previous two Tests, West Indies restricted England to 296 for seven in their first innings at stumps on the opening day. Corey Collymore collected two wickets for 44 runs from 20 overs and Jerome Taylor snared two for 53 from 15 overs to be the pick of the West Indies bowlers. They gained admirable support from Sammy, whose miserly bowling was a revelation; Fidel Edwards, whose pace and hostility made life uncomfortable for the England batsmen; and Dwayne Bravo with his reliable medium-fast bowling. Sammy, Edwards, and Bravo all walked off with a scalp apiece at the end of a satisfactory day for West Indies, and an extraordinary one for the newest member of the West Indies side. All-rounder Sammy became the first player from St. Lucia to play Test cricket. The 23-year-old Sammy is the 266th player to represent West Indies in Tests, and he was one of three changes to the visitors' line-up from the previous match. Though England retained the same 11, West Indies brought in Sammy, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and Edwards for Sylvester Joseph, injured captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Daren Powell. Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd presented Sammy with the coveted Maroon Cap in a brief handing over ceremony just prior to the start of the match. There were times in the day when things were not so rosy for West Indies however, and this allowed Ian Bell to finish unbeaten on 77, Alistair Cook to make his third score over 50 for the series of 60, England captain Michael Vaughan to gather 41, and Matt Prior to stroke 40. During those periods of vulnerability for West Indies, these four England batsmen combined for meaningful partnerships that added beef to their side's total. After Taylor condemned left-handed opener Andrew Strauss to another failure with the bat, when he had him lbw for six in the first half-hour, Vaughan came to the wicket and added 104 either side of lunch to steady the ship. Under the weight of stingy West Indies bowling after going to lunch on 112 for one, England's middle-order batting caved in, and the home team stumbled to 167 for five at tea. West Indies again failed to deliver the knockout punch, and Prior emerged after the break with Bell to stabilise the innings with a stand of 98 for the sixth wicket before two late wickets lifted the visitors' spirits. They had gained a significant boost between lunch and tea, when the home team lost captain Vaughan, Kevin Pietersen, Cook, and Paul Collingwood. Collymore made the breakthrough after lunch in the first half-hour, when he bowled Vaughan, and this triggered a slide in which West Indies captured three wickets for 15 runs in the space of 52 balls. Collymore also outfoxed Pietersen, whose previous scores in the series were 109 and 226. He had the batsman caught on the deep square leg boundary for nine, essaying a hook. Sammy then claimed his maiden Test wicket, when he had Cook caught at backward point playing a cut. Bell came to the wicket and stemmed the fall of wickets with Paul Collingwood before Taylor struck in the final over before tea. Collingwood shuffled into line, played across a ball moving back, and he was adjudged lbw for 10. After tea, Prior got down to business with Bell before he fell to Bravo's three-card trick. The West Indies bowler dug in for a third time in four balls, and the England batsman could not help but pull and was caught inside the deep mid-wicket boundary. Aiming to seize the moment, Ganga brought back Edwards for a final spell armed with the second new ball and the antagonist was finally rewarded in the last half-hour. Edwards softened Liam Plunkett with a rip-snorter and then bowled him for 13 with a full-length delivery that extracted the batsman's middle-stump. West Indies trail the four-Test series 0-1, after losing the second Test at Leeds by an innings and 283 runs - their heaviest defeat in Tests. The first Test at Lord's was drawn. A victory for England will give them a fourth successive series success over West Indies, and it would make Vaughan his country's most successful Test captain. Scoreboard ENGLAND 1st Innings A Strauss lbw b Taylor 6 A Cook c Bravo b Sammy 60 *M Vaughan b Collymore 41 K Pietersen c Bravo b Collymore 9 I Bell not out 77 +M Prior c Morton b Bravo 40 L Plunkett b Edwards 13 S Harmison not out 3 Extras: (b10, lb6, w5, nb16) 37 TOTAL :(7 wkts) 296 R. Sidebottom, M. Panesar to bat. Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Strauss), 2-117 (*Vaughan), 3-132 (Pietersen), 4-132 (Cook), 5-166 (Collingwood), 6-264 (Prior), 7-285 (Plunkett). Bowling: Taylor 15-1-53-2 (nb3, w2); Edwards 15-2-75-1 (nb10, w1); Collymore 20-5-44-2 (nb3); Bravo 19-4-76-1 (w1); Sammy 17-7-32-1. WEST INDIES: C. Gayle, *D. Ganga, D.S. Smith, S. Chanderpaul, R. Morton, D. Bravo, +D. Ramdin, D. Sammy, J. Taylor, F. Edwards, C. Collymore. Toss: England. Umpires: B. Bowden, Aleem Dar, TV Replays: P. Hartley, Reserve: R. Bailey. Match Referee: A. Hurst. Reprinted from jamaicaobserver.com