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The Documentary: The West Indies' first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell

Sir Frank Worrell

04/07/2024 GMT

The West Indies' first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The West Indies' first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell

Frank Worrell became the first full-time black captain of the West Indies cricket team

Frank Worrell became the first full-time black captain of the West Indies cricket team in 1960.

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, insularity and racism of Caribbean cricket's rulers. Simon Lister finds out how Worrell’s upbringing in Barbados, his cricketing adventures and his determination not to be cowed by the powers that ran island cricket, shaped a man who changed the West Indian game for ever.

***This programme contains outdated and discriminatory language***

Producer/presenter: Simon Lister with Ebony Rainford-Brent MBE, former England cricketer and World Cup winner

(Photo: Frank Worrell, West Indian cricket team captain during their tour of England April 1963. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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