When England arrived in Barbados a fortnight in the past, Eoin Morgan mentioned the five-match Twenty20 tour was about growing bench energy for the long term.
Already with out multi-format stars like Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow and Mark Wooden plus the injured Jofra Archer, it was positioned below larger examination by Morgan's personal quadriceps muscle damage.
Such circumstances provided surprising alternatives to fringe gamers and rising skills alike. Following the 3-2 defeat to West Indies, Sportsmail's Richard Gibson examines who deserved thumbs up, who deserved thumbs down and people in between.
SERIES RATINGS (OUT OF 10):
9 - Adil Rashid: To go at below a run a ball throughout 20 overs on a floor with minuscule boundaries was merely excellent.
Carried his seniority properly and West Indies performed the Yorkshire leg-spinner on popularity. England's main T20 wicket-taker and shutting on three figures.
8 - Reece Topley: Though the ultimate match skewed his figures, the large Surrey left-armer enhanced his popularity greater than anybody else on the journey with some authoritative shows at each ends of innings in his first outings at this stage for six years.
8 - Phil Salt: Confirmed spectacular adaptability to crash 57 from simply 24 deliveries from an unfamiliar quantity six place on debut, including to the half century he struck off Pakistan's assault in a one-day worldwide final summer season.
7 - Moeen Ali: Hauled England again to 2-2 with a scintillating efficiency within the penultimate match which included him crunching 4 successive sixes off Jason Holder after which taking two early wickets to undermine the Windies' chase.
Underneath-bowled himself in recreation three after taking the armband from Morgan.
7 - Jason Roy: Completed as England's main run scorer however didn't attain the degrees of the warm-up win over Barbados when he blasted an astonishing 36-ball hundred. Took a extra conservative method with out his normal companions on the prime.
6 - James Vince: Flourished within the ultimate match when his silky stroke play was at its greatest however didn't current sufficient proof that he's a viable challenger to Dawid Malan for the batting anchor position.
6 - Tom Banton: Smashed a 50 in a dropping trigger halfway by means of however regardless of returning the extent of strike charge (156.41) demanded by England on the prime of the order, he will even should mirror on 4 failures as Buttler's understudy.
6 - Sam Billings: Dashed from the Ashes into the opening weekend double header and didn't seem acclimatised till video games 4 and 5, which was comprehensible within the circumstances.
5 - Liam Dawson: Despatched down a nice spell in a misplaced trigger in the beginning of the sequence however having earned his first cap since 2018, possibilities have been restricted thereafter and his hopes of boarding the aircraft to Australia subsequent autumn seem skinny.
5 - Liam Livingstone: Sidelined with oesophagitis for the opening two matches and displaying lingering results for the rest of the tour. Failed to copy the heights of final summer season in consequence.
5 - Harry Brook: Acquired set however then bought out in his solely look as a last-minute alternative for Morgan. Ought to view his first cap as a bonus after being referred to as to Barbados as stand-by for Billings.
4 - Eoin Morgan: Turns 36 earlier than October's World Cup and there should now be doubts whether or not he could make it that far.
No signal of turning his kind round - his 30 runs got here at a strike charge of 73.17 - and the way a lot his management abilities offset such an absence of productiveness is now a matter of debate.
4 - George Garton: Supplied a uncommon new-ball breakthrough on his debut, though it proved a chastening return to the assault as West Indies' energy hitters focused him with scientific brutality.
3 - Chris Jordan: Turning into an rising concern. Probably the most everlasting fixture in England's group - he missed only a third match in 68 right here - now not warrants automated choose standing, together with his demise bowling, so pricey in World Cup semi-final defeat to New Zealand, nowhere close to earlier ranges.
3 - Saqib Mahmood: A powerful run of kind within the Huge Bash League was adopted by three wicketless shows in Bridgetown, the second of which noticed him slapped for 28 runs within the ultimate over, defending 30.
3 - Tymal Mills: The nice comeback story of 2021 took in a horror twist in the beginning of 2022. The exemplary management of his tempo and variations that contributed to his return to the XI within the UAE was conspicuous by its absence.
NB David Payne didn't play a match.