West Indies vs England Tests 2022: West Indies Win 1-0 — Brathwaite 341 Runs Player of Series, Roach and Seales 11 Wickets Each, Grenada Decides the Bilateral

West Indies won the England Test series March 2022 by 1-0 across 3 Tests. Kraigg Brathwaite scored 341 runs across the series to win Player of the Series. Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales each took 11 wickets. 1st Test at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua (March 8): drawn. 2nd Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados (March 16): drawn. 3rd Test at National Cricket Stadium, St George's, Grenada (March 24): West Indies won. Joe Root scored 289 runs for England. Kraigg Brathwaite captained West Indies; Joe Root captained England.

Brathwaite 341 Runs: West Indies Captain Anchoring the Bilateral

Kraigg Brathwaite scoring 341 runs across three Tests — the highest series aggregate of either side, more than 50 runs clear of England's top scorer Joe Root (289 runs) — winning the Player of the Series reflected the St Vincent-born West Indies opener's sustained bilateral impact: across Antigua, Barbados, and Grenada (three historically batter-friendly Caribbean surfaces where the bounce and pace of the pitches can reward technically sound opening batters), Brathwaite's accumulation — built on his left-handed technique that counters pace, generates runs square of the wicket, and converts starts into substantial innings — gave West Indies the batting foundation across all three Tests that allowed Roach and Seales to bowl at England from competitive totals. Brathwaite, who had captained West Indies Test cricket from 2021 after Jason Holder's Test captaincy transition, contributing both as captain setting fields and as a 341-run series batter gave the 2022 England bilateral his all-round bilateral impact in a 1-0 result where two Tests were drawn (Antigua and Barbados) before the decisive Grenada 3rd Test.

Roach and Seales: 11 Wickets Each — The Pace Partnership That Won Grenada

Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales each taking 11 wickets across the 2022 England series — the two West Indies pacemen sharing the bilateral wicket-taking with identical 11-wicket series tallies — gave the 3-Test bilateral its bowling character: an experienced pace spearhead (Roach, who had debuted for West Indies in 2009 and accumulated over 200 Test wickets) alongside a young emerging fast bowler (Seales, who had made his Test debut in 2021 at 19 years old and already shown Caribbean pace development potential) creating the bilateral wicket-taking balance that Jack Leach's 11 wickets (England's best series return) from spin could not offset. West Indies winning the decisive 3rd Test at Grenada — ending the bilateral 1-0 — with Roach and Seales' combined 22 wickets across all three Tests providing the bowling force that England's batting (Root, Stokes, Pope, Crawley) could not entirely counteract across the 3-Test Caribbean tour confirmed that West Indies' pace depth remained competitive against England even in the final months of the Joe Root England Test captaincy era before the April-May 2022 appointment of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.

West Indies vs England Tests 2022 in Context

The England tour of West Indies Tests March 2022 — Sir Vivian Richards Stadium Antigua, Kensington Oval Barbados, National Cricket Stadium Grenada — produced West Indies winning 1-0 (Antigua and Barbados drawn, Grenada West Indies won) with Brathwaite's 341-run Player of the Series, Roach and Seales' 11 wickets each, and Root's 289 series runs as England's batting standout in a lost bilateral. The 2022 West Indies bilateral — the last major England Test series before the Stokes-McCullum era began in June 2022 — occupies the transitional context of England's Test programme: the final chapter of the Root-as-captain period (Root's last bilateral as England Test captain) and the preceding moment before English Test cricket's approach was restructured by the Bazball philosophy.