The 36-year-old calls it quits with 86 international appearances for the West Indies, with more than half of those coming in the Test arena where he made a name for himself as a fearsome fast bowler.
Steady rain restricted play to just the final session on the fourth day.
The West Indies are one of the economically poorer members of the Test-match elite.
Bavuma was not involved in the T20 World Cup in which South Africa were beaten finalists.
With the two teams opening their Super Eights journey on the losing side, the Kensington Oval is poised to stage a spectacle.
West Indies have had quite an edge over their upcoming rivals in the T20 International format.
Jason Holder is one of a number of useful pace-bowling options in the travelling party, with vice-captain Alzarri Joseph, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales and the breakout star Shamar Joseph also included.
The men in maroon have been the first team to win two T20 World Cups.
"What we've been able to do throughout the last year as a T20 group, the players we've exposed, has brought us to this moment," said Sammy. "And I think we're about to knock it out of this world."
West Indies announced their 15-member squad for the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022, with Evin Lewis making a return to the squad for the first time since the 2021 event in UAE.
The start of the second T20 international between West Indies and India on Monday was delayed, Cricket West Indies announced because of "significant delays in crucial team luggage arriving into St Kitts from Trinidad".
Batsman Virat Kohli and seamer Jasprit Bumrah have been left out of India's Twenty20 squad for the team's five-match tour of West Indies beginning later this month, the country's cricket board said on Thursday.
Cricket great Garry Sobers has admitted to being left bewildered by England's astonishing start to their 2022 home Test season.
Bangladesh suffered humiliating defeats in both the Test and T20I series against the West Indies during their ongoing tour of the Caribbean but they can take plenty of inspiration from their ODI record books when they take on the home side in the first match of the three-match series at the Providence Stadium in Guyana tonight.
Former West Indies all-rounder David Holford, who played 24 Tests between 1966 and 1977, has died aged 82, Cricket West Indies announced Tuesday.
West Indies cricket star Chris Gayle wins a defamation case against an Australian media group which claimed he exposed his genitals to a massage therapist.
Curtly Ambrose was scathing about the West Indies' "totally embarrassing" defeat by England inside three days during last week's first Test at Edgbaston.
Joel Garner warns against "writing the West Indies off too early" ahead of their upcoming Test series against England.
Leading West Indian cricketers will prefer to play in lucrative Twenty20 tournaments around the world instead of representing the Caribbean side under the current administration, former captain Darren Sammy says.