AFTER claiming the first five-wicket Test haul of his career, Ryan Sidebottom is backing Andrew Strauss to follow Shivnarine Chanderpaul's lead and ensure his personal triumph ends in England glory at Riverside.

A decision to put nightwatchman Matthew Hoggard in after captain Michael Vaughan was caught at second slip off Fidel Edwards backfired on the hosts, with England ending day three on 121-4 against the West Indies.

Hoggard and Kevin Pietersen were both quickly removed meaning Strauss will start with a new fifth-wicket partner at Chester-le-Street this morning, with the hosts still chasing the tourists' 287 first innings total.

But with Strauss seemingly back in form, England will hope he pushes on from his overnight 72 and holds the innings together.

Having gone through a difficult period with his place called into question after a string of low scores, Strauss finally delivered and much of England's hopes now rest on his shoulders.

England's situation this morning is similar to the one the West Indies faced 24 hours earlier, with the tourists thankful to Chanderpaul's 16th Test hundred which drove them to a respectable total in difficult batting conditions.

And Sidebottom is pinning his hopes on Strauss doing for England today what Chanderpaul has achieved over the course of the last couple of days.

"This will have done Andrew the world of good," said Sidebottom. "He is a fantastic player and it's a great knock in the situation, when the ball is swinging around, and well done to him. We hope he can carry that on.

"If we can get a good partnership and if he can stay in, it's not easy because it is two paced. It is swinging around and seaming. If we can have a big partnership on Monday and we can all play around him, like they did with Chanderpaul, then great."

Around 15,000 spectators were inside Riverside to witness Sidebottom make inroads into the West Indies batting order.

After taking the wickets of captain Daren Ganga and Devon Smith on Saturday, Sidebottom followed up yesterday by removing Denesh Ramdin, Marlon Samuels and Edwards.

It took his Test haul this series to 16 wickets.

But, refusing to rest on his achievements, Sidebottom is determined to maintain his form to ensure he retains his place in the side.

"It is a nice feeling and a great honour," he said. "I probably wouldn't have dreamed of it a month and a half ago. I am delighted to take five wickets. I could not ask for anything more.

"I was a little bit lucky. That happens. Sometimes you have spells where you don't get wickets and other times you do when you don't bowl so well.

"The ball has been swinging around, and I have put the ball in the right areas and sometimes it goes your way. I have had a few lucky wickets but I'm just happy to be here.

"I don't look too far ahead, just take each game as it comes. All I can do is try to take wickets and do my best and hopefully that will be enough to keep getting selected."

It is 16 Tests and seven years since the West Indies beat England but Chanderpaul's heroics with the bat has raised slight hopes of success here.

His 136 not out, from 257 deliveries, was his second successive century and it is now more than 800 minutes since he was last dismissed.

And he said: "I'm a player who it doesn't matter what the situation is, I just go out and dig in. I always want to bat for as a long as I can. I have done a lot of work in the nets, preparing to bat for long time."

But he was also respectful of tailender Corey Collymore, who stood firm for 98 minutes in a stubborn tenth-wicket stand before being removed by Monty Panesar.

"We were helping each other and telling each other what to do through the innings," said Chanderpaul. "This evening we came back into the game well."