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'Last Test before Ashes'

AFP, Chester-le Street
Cricket
Andrew Strauss, the England captain, may be reluctant to talk about the Ashes ahead of the start of the second Test against the West Indies but that has not stopped Paul Collingwood.
I he Durham all -rounder, set to play in front of his home crowd when the final Test of this brief series starts at the Riverside here on I hursday, is well aware that a strong showing following England s 10-wicket first Test win at Lord's, will help cement players’ places ahead ofthe Ashes.
This is England's last Test before their series opener with Australia in Cardiff on July 8.
Collingwood, a bit-part player when England won the Ashes on home soil in 2005, was a regular when the Australians got them back in 2006/07 with a 5-0 thrashing of their oldest foes.
England will regain the Wisden Trophy they lost earlier this year in the Caribbean if they avoid defeat at the Riverside.
But Cbllingwood could not help looking ahead to what all-English cricketers regard as the biggest prize of the lot.
"There's been a real progression, the players feel that and we realise this is the last Test match before the Ashes,'' middle-order batsman Collingwood told reporters here onTUesday.
"We can't get away from the fact that it is and we want to put a big performance in and win this trophy back -- it hurt us when we got beaten by the West Indies out there and we want to get it back."
"We just want to keep progressing all the time and get into a position where we can win those Ashes,” he said.
England have added batsman Ian Bell and left-arm quick Ryan Sidebottom to their squad. But they are likely to be unchanged after wrapping up victory inside three days at Lord's against an undercooked West Indies on the back of fine individual displays from some of their least experienced players.
Ravi Bopara, in his first Test at No 3 made
143, off-spinner Graeme Swann won the man-of-the-match award for his maiden Test fifty and six wickets while Collingwood s Durham colleague Graham Onions took seven wickets on his debut with some well-directed fast bowling.
"The atmosphere we've created in the dressing room is very relaxed at the moment," Collingwood said.
"The new guys that have come in have pointed out it's a very enjoyable place to be and that has made it easier to go out and perform."
One reason why England won so quickly at Lord's was that Swann, who turns the ball away from left-handers, removed Shivnarine Chanderpaul for a golden duck and then a second-ball four.
Chanderpaul, who up until that match was ranked as the world's number one batsman, was all but impregnable when West Indies last toured England two years ago, batting for nearly seven hours during the corresponding Riverside Test while making an unbeaten century.
He may not have been unduly concerned by his own Lord's failure but. with the West Indies having four left-handers in their top six, Chanderpaul admitted Swann was a real threat.
"It puts all our left-handers in the firing line. He's got all of us out so far, so we have to make sure we go out and find a way to deal wit h it."
England though would be well advised not to get too far ahead of themselves. Had not West Indies dropped six catches in the final session of the first day to undo some of the good work of fast bowler Fidel Edwards, England's first innings total might have been considerably less than 377.
And the chances of both West Indies captain Chris Gayle and Chanderpaul, who played at the Riverside for Durham, failing for two matches in a row are slim.
"We just have to put Lord's behind us, come out here and play as well as we know we can," Chanderpaul said. "We're one down already, so the only way to save the Wisden Trophy is to win this game."