Wicketkeeper Chris Read could become the first casualty of England's grooming process as they consider how best to change their victorious Test line-up and make further improvements.

Coach Duncan Fletcher has allowed the squad a couple of days celebration following the victory which sealed England's first Caribbean series triumph since 1968 before they move on to Antigua in search of a final Test win and an unprecedented whitewash of the West Indies.

But one of Fletcher's main themes during his spell as England coach has been the need to evolve as a line-up and any player unable to perform in more than one discipline of the game is likely to be discarded in the build-up to the next Ashes series in 2005.

Read is expected to come under scrutiny after scoring 162 runs in 11 innings since reclaiming his place as England's wicketkeeper at the start of the winter.

He averages 23.14 batting at No 7 and under-study Geraint Jones, who has yet to play a Test, is performing well with both bat and gloves, as he demonstrated with an impressive 66 in the three-day practice match against the Carib Beer XI shortly before the third Test.

''Read has to get a few more runs,'' stressed Fletcher.

''He's been given quite a good run and it's an area we might have to look at, even though his keeping has been very good.

''It's difficult to compare the two because you've only seen one guy in a three-day game compared to a Test match."