Hired guns consign West Indies' Test power to the history books

Ken Rutherford averaged 27.08 in Test cricket. That figure was not truly representative of a considerable talent, yet it was a lot higher than it might have been. Rutherford had to build a Test career after one of the most traumatic and inhumane introductions to Test cricket imaginable. At the age of 19, he was picked by New Zealand to open the batting during their tour of the Caribbean in 1984-85. Malcolm Marshall destroyed him. Rutherford got a pair on debut; in the series he made 12 runs at an average of 1.71.

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