West Indies’ tour of India has been cancelled due to a pay dispute between the players and the board, meaning the hosts' 59-run win in the fourth one-day international gave Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side a 2-1 series win.
The West Indies Cricket Board called the trip off after a meeting today when it was informed that the players had taken a decision to withdraw their services for the remainder of the tour.
West Indies will not play the remaining five matches which were scheduled - the fifth ODI, a Twenty20 international and three Tests.
The announcement ended a day of confusion and conflicting statements where the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced midway through the hosts' innings that the tour was to end.
This was initially contradicted by the WICB, before a further statement was then issued by the BCCI documenting a full timeline of the WICB's withdrawal from the tour.
Following a board meeting this evening, the WICB confirmed the tour was over and in a statement released on the board's website apologised "unreservedly" for the early ending of the tour. The West Indies board offered to field a replacement team for the final five matches of the tour but said that "was not considered acceptable" by the BCCI.
In the on-field action at Dharamsala Virat Kohli returned to his imperious best as his 20th ODI century paved the way for victory.
The mess of off-field communications was briefly matched on the field – with a ball boy collecting a Suresh Raina pull shot before it had crossed the boundary – while a scrappy West Indies display was fully pounced upon by Kohli.
The right-hander has endured a comparatively lean spell, following a poor tour of England, but put that behind him by crunching 127 from 114 deliveries before he was run out from the final ball of the innings.
His hundred was brought up with an overthrow and, with Raina and Ajinkya Rahane adding half-centuries, India piled on 330 for six.
It was a target West Indies never looked likely to track down despite Marlon Samuels’ 112.
Samuels did not find the required support until number eight Andre Russell briefly threatened to pull off the unlikely, smacking 46 from 23 balls.
Russell launched Umesh Yadav onto the roof of one stand, but later in the over had his stumps pinned back.
Samuels remained to reach his seventh ODI century before he was last man out, bowled by Mohammed Shami, as West Indies managed 271 from 48.1 overs.