Ashley Giles claimed his maiden five-wicket Test haul in this country as England opened up a lead in the npower series with a 210-run victory over West Indies at Lord's.
Left-arm spinner Giles, who claimed four first-innings wickets, finished with nine in the match to get his name on the honours board in the home dressing room.
After initial frustration on the final morning, England finally separated the fourth-wicket pair on 172, when Giles brought about Brian Lara's demise spectacularly.
A ball from the rough turned in exaggerated fashion to fizz through left-hander Lara's gate and crash into the stumps.
It was a fitting way for Warwickshire's Giles to reach 100 Test wickets and put his side on the way to a perfect start to the four-match series.
On their way to a seventh win in eight Tests this year, England were then boosted as Giles added victims 101 and 102 to his haul - Dwayne Bravo and Tino Best - either side of successes for Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison from the pavilion end.
Hoggard enticed Ridley Jacobs into a nick to third slip while a delivery which kept relatively low cartwheeled Omari Banks' off-stump.
A second stumping for Geraint Jones - a marginal decision by television umpire Nigel Llong - got Giles to his fourth five-for in Test cricket.
And victory was wrapped up when Andrew Flintoff found the edge of Fidel Edwards' bat in his second over from the nursery end.
When the players arrived in St John's Wood today a combination of the London weather and record-breaker Lara stood in the way of England's bid.
But the early morning drizzle which hung in the air and delayed the start by 10 minutes subsided and Lara succumbed to Giles' moment of magic.
Although the West Indians were set an improbable 478-run victory target, such is the prowess of Lara, who struck a new Test high 400 not out against Michael Vaughan's men in Antigua earlier this year, that the prospect of going 1-0 up in the four-match series appeared far from guaranteed.
However, there was little he could do about the sharp turner, reminiscent of Shane Warne's dismissal of Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series, as England smelt the scent of victory.
Overnight partner Shivnarine Chanderpaul - a first-innings centurion - displayed positive intent to register a half-century from 91 balls with his eighth boundary and remained unbeaten in the match, cruelly three runs short of twin hundreds.