Date-stamped : 13 Mar95 - 22:44 West Indies v Australia, ODI 3 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 12 March 1995. Western Australia's left-arm paceman Brendon Julian will join the Australian team in the Caribbean after Damien Fleming damaged his shoulder against the West Indies yesterday. The 24-year-old Fleming broke down in his eighth over of the third limited-over international at Queen's Park Oval, tearing the rotator cuff tendon of his bowling shoulder. "I've never had pain like it," he said last night. The right-arm swing bowler's tragic exit from the tour coincided with one of Australia's worst defeats in one-day cricket as, with Craig McDermott and Mark Waugh also nursing injuries, the West Indies took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series by a numbing 134 runs - 5-282 to 148. The national selectors' decision probably boiled down to a choice between West Australian team-mates. Julan, 24, and Jo Angel, 26. For all his enormous courage, Angel was not the answer. Angel's limitations were again exposed when recalled to Australia's fifth Test team against England in Perth when he captured 3-85 from 25.3 overs. He is not quite quick enough and he is not quite good enough. On the Caribbean's slowish pitches, agile, aggressive batsmen like Brian Lara and Richie Richardson would make mincemeat of anything he bowled short. Others in contention were South Australia's Shane George, 24, and left-arm new-ball bowler Mark Harrity, 21, the best young fast bowling prospect in Australia, Queensland veteran, Carl Rackemann, 34, and Michael Kasprowicz, 23. Another Queenslander, Greg Rowell, 28, is out with a stress fracture of the foot. The field is small and not very select. Fleming, who has taken 17 wickets at 25.58 in four Tests, will accompany the Australians to St Vincent where they will play the fourth international on Wednesday, but he will then return to Melbourne for specialist treatment. He cannot begin bowling for between three and four weeks. Physiotherapist Errol Alcott said: "The probability is he would not be ready until about the third Test. It would not be fair to him or the team keeping him on." Standing in for McDermott, who strained his own rotator cuff on Saturday, Fleming bowled a clever seven-over first spell with the new ball for 1-18 then wrenched his shoulder returning a ball in the field. "It was similar to the pain I had on the tour of Pakistan," he said. "It was only slight, but I thought: `Something's happened here'. When I came back for the second spell, it was like having electric shocks through my shoulder. I knew that was it. "I had three balls and as I ran in to bowl the fourth, I was thinking: `I dunno whether I can bowl this.' Luckily, I hit my thigh with the balls and didn't have to go through with it. It was a real after-shock when I bowled each ball. I've put in so much work. It always hurts when you've put in effort. You've got so much to lose when you do that." Fleming has appeared in only four of Australia's past seven Tests. He strained his right shoulder soon after his Rawalpindi debut and when he returned to Australia he damaged a hamstring, which cost him the trip to New Zealand. "It's been a 'mare of a season, really," he said. Meanwhile, everything that could go wrong for Australia did go wrong yesterday. Facing an enormous run-chase, first Michael Slater was thrown out by Phil Simmons and then Mark Taylor had his wicket thrown down by Carl Hooper. Slater lost his wicket on TV replay as did Greg Blewett and Paul Reiffel, and Australia lost their last seven wickets for 30 runs from 41 balls. Only Ricky Ponting (43 from 68 balls) and Steve Waugh (44 from 45 balls) held their ground. McDermott and Mark Waugh will be back on Wednesday, but this bleak, black day may be grimly portentous for the tour. (Thanks : Phil Wilkins, Sydney Morning Herald) Contributed by David.Mar (mar@Physics.usyd.edu.au)