Frank Worrell
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| Batting style | Right hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Left arm fast medium | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 51 | 208 |
| Runs scored | 3860 | 15025 |
| Batting average | 49.48 | 54.24 |
| 100s/50s | 9/22 | 39/80 |
| Top score | 261 | 308* |
| Balls bowled | 7141 | 26740 |
| Wickets | 69 | 349 |
| Bowling average | 38.72 | 28.98 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 2 | 13 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 7/70 | 7/70 |
| Catches/stumpings | 43/0 | 139/0 |
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Test debut: 11 February 1948 |
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Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell (born 1 August 1924, Bank Hall, St Michael Barbados, died 13 March 1967, Kingston, Jamaica)
He is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator. He became famous in the 1950s as one of the three Ws along with Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes.
By 1947 his mother had moved to New York and his father was away at sea most of the time so he moved to Jamaica.
As a player for West Indies, Worrell made his debut in 1947–48 versus the England team of Gubby Allen. Worrell was a fine batsman and bowler, and was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1951.
He became the first black cricketer to captain the West Indies cricket team for an entire series, thus breaking the colour barriers then found in West Indian cricket.
1963 Worrell retired after the West Indies versus England series. When he left professional cricket, he became Warden of Irvine Hall at the University of the West Indies, and was appointed to the Jamaican Senate by Sir Alexander Bustamante.
As of the 1960-61 series the Frank Worrell Trophy is awarded to the winner of the West Indies–Australia series.
Caribbean journalist Ernest Eytle (born Guyana 1918) wrote a biography of Worrell entitled Frank Worrell : The Career of a Great Cricketer in 1963.
[edit] Trivia
Worrell is the only batsman to have been involved in two 500-run partnerships in first-class cricket.[2]
| Preceded by Gerry Alexander |
West Indies Test cricket captains 1960/1 - 1963 |
Succeeded by Garfield Sobers |
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