Malcolm Marshall's 7/22 — Old Trafford 1988

England had lost the first Test at Trent Bridge by an innings and arrived at Old Trafford with their batting under siege.

Damp conditions on the morning of England's second innings gave the seamers movement; Marshall took the new ball with the lead already past 250.

England, captained by Mike Gatting at the start of the summer, were rolled for 135 in their first innings and conceded a 251-run lead. In the second innings, Marshall opened the bowling and was virtually unplayable. He took 7 for 22 from 18.3 overs, with five maidens, beating the bat from over and around the wicket and finishing with the best Test figures of his career. England were dismissed for 93 to lose by an innings and 156 runs. The performance came in the middle of a summer that produced four different England captains — Gatting, John Emburey, Chris Cowdrey and Graham Gooch — and confirmed the West Indian dominance of England that had now stretched to 5-0, 5-0, 4-0 over three consecutive series. Marshall finished the five-Test series with 35 wickets at 12.65, statistically one of the great series-long bowling performances in Test history.

“He bowled like a bowler from another planet.”

“The best spell of fast bowling I ever stood up to.”

The result accelerated England's captaincy chaos; four men captained the side that summer.