It was impossible not to be moved by the scenes on Sunday morning as the Grenadians in the National Cricket Stadium sang a rousing rendition of David Rudder’s seminal calypso, Rally Round the West Indies, and their team duly panned out a tuneful series win.
England’s tail-end defiance had lasted just 11.2 overs, fiddling out 17 more runs before the last two wickets fell and setting a lowly target of 28 runs. West Indies didn’t muck about, their ice-cool captain, Kraigg Brathwaite, fittingly wrapping up a 10-wicket victory and the Richards‑Botham Trophy 1-0 at 11.28am local time when he clipped Chris Woakes to leg and hustled the last two runs.
