James Anderson destroyed Pakistan's second innings with a superb spell of swing bowling to claim eleven wickets for the match and lead England to an emphatic 354-run victory.

The result of the first Test of a four match series was in little doubt coming into day four at Trent Bridge. Pakistan, already three wickets down, began the morning still 420 runs in arrears under cloudy skies in Nottingham.

Anderson began his unbroken spell of 12 overs slightly off the mark as the overnight pair of Imran Farhat and nightwatchman Mohammad Aamer gusted their way through the opening half-hour of the morning. Skipper Andrew Strauss however persisted with Anderson who soon found his range, rewarding his captain with a catch as Imran Farhat outside-edged an in-swinging delivery.

The Pakistan innings then capitulated with Umar Akmal's dismissal just two overs later, caught in his crease and adjudged leg before wicket. The younger of the Akmal brothers was not convinced and sent the decision upstairs for a review but the initial decision stood and Akmal had to leave having used Pakistan's second and last referral for the innings.

Almost inevitably it was Kamran Akmal who would suffer at the hands of his brother's failed review. The Pakistani wicketkeeper capped off a disappointing Test match with a duck, though replays suggested that Steve Finn was fortunate to be given the lbw decision.

Finn provided good support for Anderson and picked up two wickets of his own, including the stubborn Aamer who lasted more deliveries than any other of his team's batsman.

Wickets continued to fall at disturbingly short intervals for the visitors and it was Anderson who was the chief destroyer with his vicious display of swing bowling. The England fast bowler was superbly backed up by his fielders behind the stumps who held onto everything, including a stunning catch from Paul Collingwood who snatched a chance at gully to see the end of Umar Gul.

And it was Anderson and Collingwood who combined again to snare Shoaib Malik and give Anderson his fifth wicket for the innings and tenth for the match, the first time that he has completed ten wickets in a Test match.

With the visitors in desperate trouble at 65 for nine Danish Kaneria then took it upon himself to swing his bat, landing a six and two fours to take a bit of the gloss off Finn's figures.

It mattered little however as Anderson soon had his sixth, dismissing last-man Mohammad Asif to leave Pakistan 80 all out and England with a polished and convincing 354-run win.

Moment of the Day
James Anderson claiming a ten-wicket haul. Shane Warne described Anderson as the best Test bowler around when the ball is swinging, surprising then that the England paceman was yet to pick up a ten-wicket haul in Test cricket before Trent Bridge. It clearly was a special moment for him too, the Lancashire man jumping high in celebration at the wicket of Shoaib Malik.

Delivery of the Day
Anderson produced a beauty to have Umar Akmal leg before wicket. The quality of the delivery lay in how late it swung, jagging back to rap the batsman on the pad.

Shot of the Day
There were very few to choose from to be honest. Shoaib Malik only hit three scoring shots, two going to the fence in a particular Steve Finn over. Both shots were pleasing on the eye with the first particularly so. Malik was given a slightly short delivery and he lent back to power a back-foot drive past point for four. Clearly a sign of the man's talent.

Doug Saxby