Worst nightmare: Just now The West Indies Cricket’ Legend pass away at 56….RIP
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 been Worrell.
The crisis is immediate. West Indies have papier mache where their specialist batting should be.
Other countries outside the cosy big three of England, Australia and India, struggle to keep Test cricket alive on a diet of a two-Test series here today and gone tomorrow – but none faces such enormous costs as the West Indian territories who have to import every single piece of equipment.
Worrell was not only a great cricketer but a pan-Caribbean statesman. He died of leukemia aged 42, in 1967, shortly after he had brought West Indian cricket – a unique combination of athleticism and artistry – to fulfilment.
It was Worrell who saved West Indian cricket after England won the 1957 series by the same margin as this time, 3-0. England killed West Indies spin bowling in the Edgbaston Test.
the mystery-spinner Sonny Ramadhin was not awarded one leg-before-wicket dismissal in his 98 overs by home, not neutral, umpires as Peter May and Colin Cowdrey kicked him with their front pad.
