How and when does a cricketer know that the time has come to call it quits? How do they know that the last remaining supply of juice – and motivation – has run dry and that they can no longer go on? It’s different for different people. For some it’s circumstance, for others it’s falling out of love with the game, and still others, is that their bodies give up on them.

To borrow from two relatively recent retirements, Bravo’s falls somewhere between those of Zafar Ansari and Gautam Gambhir. Ansari, who called it time at 25, wrote on these pages that “playing cricket was no longer for me, and I wanted to do something else.”

“With those, young talents like Shai Hope, Hetmyer… they have a lot of talent and they showed that in the short time that they have been playing. It’s just a matter of nurturing those talents. They have a chance. Everybody has a chance going into the World Cup.

“Even Afghanistan!”

“I think their cricket has got to a different level. It’s going to be an exciting World Cup as always and everybody has a chance to win it. But those young players will definitely set the stage afire.”

So they may – set the stage afire. And while the World Cup may some day come back to the West Indies, and Bravo may win more tournaments like he wishes, the two won’t happen together, unfortunately.