Frank Worrell

One of the world's favorite cricketing sons, Sir Frank Worrell took up the leadership of a talented but under confident West Indies team to guide it to the status of a genuinely formidable cricketing power. A member of the "3 W's" trio alongside his best friends Everton Weeks and Clyde Wolcott, Worrell distinguished himself as a superb batsman in his own right, retiring with nearly 4000 runs at an average of just under 50. A true representative of the gentlemen's game, Worrell donated his blood to Nari Contractor after a bouncer from Charlie Griffith sent his Indian opposite number to the hospital and fractured his skull. Worrel's sudden demise in 1967, aged just 42, left a huge void in global cricket. An honorary funeral service was conducted especially for him at the Westminster Abbey, the first ever for a sportsman.