England declare after Pietersen's century

England's Kevin Pietersen acknowledges the crowd's applause after scoring a century against the West Indies at Lords in London on Sunday. Photo: AFP

The West Indies need 394 more runs to win the first Test after Kevin Pietersen's seventh Test hundred on Sunday allowed England to declare on 284-8 just before stumps on the fourth day.

Pietersen 11 boundaries for 109, sharing in stands of 88 with Alastair Cook (65) and 102 with Paul Collingwood (34), to set the West Indies 401 to win. The visitors reached seven without loss after two overs.

Daren Ganga was not out on four and Chris Gayle yet to score at the close at Lord's.

Corey Collymore took three wickets in England's innings, dismissing Andrew Strauss (24) and Owais Shah (4) in 12 balls, and then Cook to finish 3-58, while Chris Gayle had three late wickets to claim 3-66.

Having just two wickets for 97 in the second session, England lost six wickets for 179 after tea.

"If we dig a trench on a good length and build some pressure there is no reason why we can't take 10 wickets tomorrow," Pietersen said.

Starting day with the West Indies on 363-7, Chanderpaul and Daren Powell negotiated nine overs before Monty Panesar struck in his first over.

The left-arm finger spinner landed a sharply turning ball into the rough that hit the back pad with Chanderpaul not playing a shot, and he was out leg-before-wicket (lbw) for 74 from 193 balls.

Jerome Taylor, on 21, drove a ball from Steve Harmison to be caught low down at point by substitute fielder Lee Hodgson, who replaced Matthew Hoggard after he strained his abductor muscle on Saturday.

Panesar Collymore on 1, his fifth wicket by lbw, to wrap up the innings for 437 with the West Indies trailing by 116. He finished with Test-best figures of 6-129 from 36.1 overs.

He became just the fifth England spinner to take five wickets at Lord's. On Saturday, Panesar bowled Devon Smith (21) and had Daren Ganga (49), Ramnaresh Sarwan (35) and Runaka Morton (14) out lbw.

England to lunch leading by 124, although Strauss could have been out for 10 after the break. He tried to withdraw his bat to a ball from Powell, but wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin couldn't hold the edge.

However, Strauss had only added 14 more runs when he nicked a ball from Collymore to Morton at second slip to leave England on 35-1 in the 14th over.

Two and 16 runs later, Shah gloved a ball by Collymore to offer a looping catch to Ramdin down the leg side.

Cook Pietersen reached 50 together and took England's total to 100 in the 29th over. Cook was 52 and Pietersen 21 with England 105-2 at tea for a lead of 221.

The two took the total to 139 before Cook was caught by Ramdin after nicking a legcutter from Collymore. Cook's fourth Test 50 contained eight fours in 125 balls.

Pietersen his run-rate, earning his century with a second 50 coming from just 39 balls in the 56th over.

"Once I identified the situation, it was a case of trying to then score as quickly as I could," he said.

A ball earlier, Collingwood was dropped on 29 by Powell at fine-leg off the bowling of Bravo.