IT was the last, parting body blow for a team that had absorbed more than its fair share in the preceding six weeks.
Even as the West Indies players packed their kits for the flight out of Johannesburg, heading for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Sunil Narine, on record the contemporary game’s most effective white ball bowler, belatedly withdrew from the squad.
Whatever little confidence they retained following their preceding mauling by South Africa was inevitably diminished. Narine’s cocktail of
