Right, time to sign off. An excellent day for West Indies, but a real reality check for this developing England side ahead of some tough summer Tests against New Zealand and Australia.

Join us again on Friday when we'll have live text and radio coverage of England's ODI against Ireland. Until then, goodbye.

First Test, Antigua: Match drawn

England 399 and 333-7dec; West Indies 295 and 350-7

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Second Test, Grenada: England won by nine wickets

West Indies 299 and 307; England 464 and 144-1

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Third Test, Barbados: West Indies won by five wickets

England 257 and 123; West Indies 189 and 194-5

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Day one: England 240-7 (89.2 overs) - Cook 105, Moeen 58

Day two: England 257 (96.3 overs) & 39-5 (21 overs)

West Indies 189 (49.4 overs) - Blackwood 85, Anderson 6-42

Day three: England 123 (42.1 overs) - Buttler 35no, Holder 3-15, Taylor 3-33, Permaul 3-43

West Indies 194-5 (62.4 overs) - Bravo 82, Blackwood 47no

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"England are just waiting for Colin Graves to take over. We need an inquiry. I saw him at Yorkshire - he was cross as hell when Yorkshire got relegated. He needs to do something after this defeat."

James Anderson led the way in the bowling averages after taking 17 wickets for 306 runs at 18.00. He had a best of 6-42 in this match - his best figures in an away series and England's only five-for of the series.

Stuart Broad took 10 wickets at 32 as he found his form after knee surgery.

No other England bowler managed 10 wickets in the series, which tells you how the spinners have struggled and how much the team relies on the frontline duo of Anderson and Broad.

Joe Root leads England's batting averages with 358 runs at 89.50, featuring a highest score of 182 and knocks of 83 and 59.

Gary Ballance weighed in with 331 runs at 66.20, with scores of 122, 81 not out and 77, while Alastair Cook and Ian Bell also scored centuries, averaging 40.36 and 31.00 respectively.

Jonathan Trott finished with three ducks and an average of 12 from his six innings, having managed only 72 runs in total despite one half century.

Stuart Broad also recorded three ducks and a total of 10 runs all made in one innings. He averaged 2.50 for the series.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Moeen Ali has batted nicely at times and taken a few wickets but he's a part-time spinner. It was covered up in the summer when the seamers were taking wickets but he's been shown up on a pitch in which he's expected to bowl a team out. It exposes the captain and coach because they didn't pick a spinner like Adil Rashid on a turning pitch. It seems like the selectors have a different idea to the captain and coach. They just threw him on the scrap heap after one poor performance in a tour game."

Peter Moores on Sky Sports: "Disappointed because we've had a good series and we've slipped up at the end to tie a series we thought we could have won. We were disappointed with 250 first innings but we knew the pitch was going to deteriorate and we bowled very well to get a lead but that second innings cost us dearly. Credit to West Indies, they bowled us out.

"Moeen will be disappointed, we know he's emerging as a bowler and he felt a bit of pressure but he will learn from that. If we knew it was deteriorate that much we would have played an extra spinner, a more mature spinner would have been a nice option.

"There's a ruthlessness we need to develop, commitment from the lads has been total but we've got to learn some tough lessons."

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"There were some outstanding performances from West Indies. Curtly Ambrose speaks to the bowlers after each session and gees them all up before each day. The spirit has been outstanding. I didn't think they had it in them to pick themselves up but they have given the West Indies public a glimpse as to what they can achieve. It will take some time and they do some rash things, but the talent is there. There are many plusses for them."

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"We have a cautious captain and coach, they are not going to change. They don't have any imagination. If Andrew Strauss is the man (new ECB chief), it'll stay the same. He likes Cook. We'll keep on with the same people and things won't change."

England captain Alastair Cook: "We came here after Grenada with the opportunity to win the series, played a lot of good cricket in the first day and a half but then with the bat it shows you can lose a Test match pretty quickly.

"It's a tough one to take, it shows no matter how hard you keep fighting you can never win a Test match in two hours but you can go a long way to losing it.

"When you're defending 190 you need to take every chance and we didn't do that. Bravo and Jermaine played incredibly well on that pitch but the bottom line is we haven't done enough to win this series.

"Let's let the dust settle, its not a long turnaround but I think that's good. For the majority of the series we did a lot of good stuff but when the pressure came on we didn't play very well."

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West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin: "It was a quite tricky pitch but losing the toss turned out well for us. The bowlers came up trumps for us. We didn't bat as well as we wanted in the first innings, I was a bit worried but the five early wickets in England's second innings really put us in a commanding position. Darren Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood batted fantastically well. We have young blood and they are very hungry for success."

England bowler James Anderson, who took 17 wickets in the series, is man of the series:

He says: "We played some good cricket throughout this series and to get a first-innings lead we thought we were well in the game but they did a great job of knocking them off. There were periods we thought we would be in with a chance but Bravo and Blackwood played really well.

"I felt like I bowled well and contributed to the team's success but disappointed we couldn't quite get over the line."

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West Indies batsman Jermaine Blackwood is named man of the match.

He says: "I always try to play my natural game but I have to adapt to the situation. Sometimes I get out playing my natural game: not every day it comes true, but most of the time it does. Darren Bravo just kept telling me to stay positive and take it 10 runs at a time. Each Test series I'm learning, so it's a good sign for me."

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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"It has been the worst spin bowling I've ever seen from an England team, possibly any international team, in the 50 years I have been commentating."

T.C.H: My wife, Sarah, and I were meant to be starting our honeymoon in Barbados at the Test Match tomorrow. A beach beckons!

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"A big point in the game was that missed stumping when Blackwood came to the crease. If he'd stumped him then, it would have opened up an end. The wicketkeeper (Joss Buttler) saw it all the way, it was regulation."

Goonerh1: England tried to put together a team with bowlers who can bat and batsmen who can bowl. Unfortunately most of them did neither.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"You always feel that if James Anderson doesn't get wickets, who else will? He can't do it all the time. Even if he bowls beautifully you cannot expect that every time he bowls the batsman will nick it. Somebody else has to be stand up and be counted. Stuart Broad bowled well for a time and England were still in it, but then Bravo, who looked to be fretting a bit, played well and I can't praise him enough."

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Jack of all trades: Couple of good bowlers and good batsmen, this Windies side have promise, would be even promising with Bravo, Gayle and Sarwan.

kdios: Blackwood showed great composure after two horrible outs in second innings of previous matches.