Marlon Ian Black is a former West Indian

West Indian cricket team

The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

 cricket

Cricket

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er who played in six Tests

Test cricket

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 and five ODIs, debuting in the year 2000.

He played his last international in 2002 due largely to an incident where he was attacked and badly beaten outside a Melbourne

Melbourne

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 nightclub. Black had been out clubbing with his teammates Wavell Hinds

Wavell Hinds

Wavell Wayne Hinds is a West Indian cricketer at Test and One Day International level.-Career:An aggressive left-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler, Hinds made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 2000...

 and Sylvester Joseph

Sylvester Joseph

Sylvester Cleofoster Joseph is a West Indian cricketer who has played in five Tests and 13 ODIs, from 2000 to 2005. He captained the West Indies in one of those ODI games due to the more experienced players being unavailable courtesy of contract disputes...

 to mark the end of their tour. Walking back to their hotel, they came across four drunk men smashing bottles on the road. The two groups got into a confrontion and when the men got aggressive the cricketers tried to flee. Hinds and Joseph got away but Black was knocked unconscious after being badly beaten.http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/108668.html