Sir Frank Worrell once wrote that the island of Barbados, his birthplace, lacked a hero. As usual, he was under-playing himself. Frank Maglinne Worrell was the first hero of the new nation of ...

The University of the West Indies hosts an annual Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture, and also named a Hall of Residence after him. And in Barbados, his face has appeared on both a banknote and a ...

The brilliant cricketer Frank Worrell became the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies team in 1960 – but he had to wait for a decade to get the job, denied by the elitism ...

Two recent publications on Sir Frank’s life and times demonstrate this. Simon Lister’s “Worrell” captures the first black West Indies captain on the field; Vaneisa Baksh, the Trinidadian ...

Sir Frank Worrell would have turned 100 on Thursday. If anyone could arrest the decline of West Indies Test cricket towards extinction - a big if after England’s 3-0 walloping - it would have ...

There are a few cricketers of yesteryear I would have loved to have seen play. The late Sir Frank Worrell is one of them. So much I have heard about his late, late-cut that I can almost envision ...

Australia's Neil Harvey, who played in the famous series, described how Worrell and his side left a lasting impression both with himself and the public. "I played two series against Frank, in 1955 and ...

(CMC) – Cricket West Indies president, Dr. Kishore Shallow, said yesterday it was important to confront the challenges facing the regional game with “honesty and resolve”, while using the ...

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In a statement to mark the centennial birthday of West Indies’ first black Test captain, Sir Frank Worrell, Shallow also said the approach to governance of the game needed to reflect the ...