Griffith has regrets

"It just shows that you have to fight a little harder."

With those words, Adrian Griffith reflected on what he needed to do to have had a much more successful tour of England.

"Things were not easy. I thought the England bowlers bowled pretty well. They were very consistent.

"It meant that you had to be more patient than I was," said the tall left-hander whose four Tests brought him 132 runs at an average of 16.50.

Griffith's fellow Barbadian and opening partner Sherwin Campbell was the West Indies' leading run-scorer, but he too was not satisfied with his returns.

"When you come back from a tour averaging 30, that is disappointing. I was a bit inconsistent at times," said Campbell who ended the series with 270 runs (ave. 30.00).

Vice-captain Campbell passed 50 in each of the first three Tests, but was never able to convert any innings into a three-digit score.

"The 50s that I scored should have been transferred into hundreds," he said. "It would have done a lot more for the team.

"The times you score runs, you have got to cash in a lot and make a big innings."

It was Griffith's first tour of England, but he refused to blame the conditions for his performance.

"When you go to England, you have to expect that the conditions will be bowler-friendly," he said.

"If you are Test cricketer, you have to adjust to anything."

Both opening batsmen, however, said the experience could be of use for the future.

"I'm going to look again at my game, see what things need to be done, probably speak to a few pertinent people and see if I can get my game back on course," Griffith said.

Campbell said: "The experience will be good for the future.

"You know the areas that you have to improve on.

"You have got to try and work on your mistakes and keep trying to improve over time. It is a learning experience."

Griffith probably spoke for everyone in summing up the tour in which West Indies suffered a 3-1 Test series defeat to surrender the Wisden Trophy for the first time in 31 years.

"You don't mind losing. It's just the way you lose.

"Sometimes we felt as though we were not in it. That is what really hurts the most the way we were beaten."