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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 ...
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 ...
WORRELL, SIR FRANK MAGLINNE, died in Jamaica, March 13, 1967. He was born in Barbados, August 1, 1924 and was knighted for his services to cricket in 1964.
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 ...
(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 ...
As world cricket today celebrates the birth centenary of leader of leaders Worrell, the great West Indian’s connection with India ran deep before he passed away at the age of 42 in 1967 Frank ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frank Worrell is the most important West Indian cricketer of all time – and arguably surpassed only by Usain Bolt and Bob Marley as an icon of the Caribbean. He was born 100 years ago today, on ...
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 ...