MISERABLE ending to a miserable winter. Joe Root will surely be the next England head to rock.
England was in complete despair when Kraigg Brathwaite struck a final blow into their Caribbean corpse. He knocked off the paltry target just 28 in only 29 balls, for a win of ten wickets.
England was beaten by the West Indies on Day Four to end a miserable winter
Chris Woakes, Jack Leach and England were both crushed early in the morning session
After a terrible winter in Australia and West Indies, Joe Root will be losing his England Test captaincy
Root and his team stood in a state of despair and shame. They should.
One win in 17 Tests is humiliating.
England's only contribution to the Caribbean was the name and rank of their greatest all-rounder, the Richards-Botham Trophy.
They will also crawl back home on the flight, their tails between their legs, and ask if was really in the attack for Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.
The damage done today was not, in truth.
This was just a confirmation that what had been signalled, in flashing lights, as the batting lineup allowed itself to be enchanted by the seemingly innocuous medium pace stuff of Kyle Mayers on Saturday.
The "red ball reset", however, has been exposed as the empty rhetorical and untrue nonsense that it was always threatening to be.
Yes, England's only series win in 54 years in The Caribbean was a reminder that it would take something to turn the tables for them to win two.
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It was Antigua and Barbados' failure to capitalize on a last-day pitch that cost them wins. West Indies batted far too easily.
It was a pair batting disasters in Grenada. The last wicket couple saved the day, but not the second.
It was 103-8 at the end and only 10 ahead, so it was going to be a minor miracle for Chris Woakes and Jack Leach to get England to post a target worthy.
This meant that you had to bat well past the lunch break.
England, however, failed to even make the drinks break. Awful, again.
Woakes (18) was incorrectly activated when Alzarri Joseph's ball looped off his thigh pad and into the hands short leg. This was immediately reviewed.
He had just added one more. England extended their lead to 23 when Woakes snatched Kemar Roach’s first ball from the middle of the bat, only for Jason Holder to grab it one-handed at the leg gully.
It seemed like it was a matter time, even though Leach & Mahmood had scored 90 runs in the first innings.
Leach was just inches away from reaching Joseph at the same time.
Nine balls later, Roach had snatched his outside edge, and Joshua Da Silva's insistent on asking for a review, the 23rd decision to be overturned in THREETests, was justifiable.
Only 120 left. Unbelievable. Unacceptable.
Brathwaite pushed Woakes for two more runs through the mid-wicket, and soon it was over.
It's all over too quickly. It's a complete mess.
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