‘Curse’ of Sarwan finally broken

By Tony Cozier
In St John’s

Coming, as he does, from Guyana, Ramnaresh Sarwan might have wondered many times last year whether he had somehow angered a bacoo or some inexplicable obeah spell had been cast over him.

In that time, he was shocked to be dropped from the team in the series in Pakistan in December 2006 and had as many injuries as a war veteran, one following the other in a sequence that cost him the captaincy to which he was appointed on Brian Lara’s retirement following the World Cup.