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Mitchell lauds Sir Frank Worrell

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SIR FRANK WORRELL was responsible for transforming the West Indies cricket team into a professional and disciplined side.

Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell made the statement while delivering the 19th Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture at the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies on Wednesday night.

Mitchell, the chairman of CARICOM’s subcommittee on cricket governance, said that Worrell and Australia’s captain Richie Benaud “revived the game and gave it a new lease of life” during the historic 1960-61 series “Down Under”.

“What Frank Worrell achieved with his young team was truly remarkable. For few on his team had any kind of reputation before they arrived in Australia but when they left, they were all superstars,” Mitchell noted.

Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.

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