Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, left to ponder yet another failure by a touring Indian Test side, said there must be something wrong in the psyche of his players.

"We did well in Trinidad but did not keep up the same levels of consistency in the other matches," he said.

We've had some good individual performances in the series, but you know that is not good enough - we need match-winning performances from everyone, especially when we are under pressure."

Reflecting on the remarkable statistic which shows the Indians have now failed to win a series abroad for 16 years, he added: "There is nothing impossible in life.

"You've got to wake up every day in these games and give your best. We have no clue what's going wrong. We were 1-0 up here so there's something that's going wrong in the mind."

Carl Hooper, hardly looking as jubilant as he had every right to, collected the trophy awarded to the winning skipper of the series and paid tribute to all his team.

He said: "It was a total team effort. We had contributions from up front when we most needed it, with Wavell Hinds and Chris Gayle coming good here.

"Shivnarine Chanderpaul played out of his skin and it was the manner in which he got his runs that was so important.

"It was good to see the bowlers coming on too - I think we've played better cricket than [India] over the past few weeks."