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He was omitted from team for both the Second and Third Test but then recalled for the Fourth Test at Queen's Park Oval which was drawn ; Trueman again struggled and had a return of 1 – 131 in the first innings as West Indies amassed 681 – 8 declared, all of the famous " Three Ws " scoring centuries: Everton Weekes 206, Frank Worrell 167 and Clyde Walcott 124.
Walcott was a member of the " three W's ", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926 ; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948.
Both of the other two " Ws " were also knighted, Weekes in 1995 and Worrell in 1964, only three years before his early death.
Frank Worrell scored a double century, and Everton Weekes a century, in his debut match.
Johnston started the series steadily with match figures of 3 / 90 in the First Test, removing vice-captain Jeff Stollmeyer and leading batsmen Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes as Australia scraped home by three wickets.
File: Kensington Oval media centre. jpg | Worrell, Weekes and Walcott ( or 3Ws ) Stand
File: Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Everton Weekes, and Sir Clyde Walcott-The 3Ws ( Kensington stands ), Barbados. jpg | Fmr.
Worrell, Weekes, and WalcottThe 3Ws
Swanton believed that Constantine was the first West Indian cricketer to make an impression on the British public: " he ... personified West Indian cricket from the first faltering entry in the Test arena in 1928 until the post-war emergence of the trinity of Worrell, Weekes and Walcott.
Their batting was led the celebrated batting trio, the three W's: Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott .< Ref name =" p227 "/> Lindwall entered the First Test in Brisbane in good form, having taken nine wickets in a Sheffield Shield match against Queensland in the lead-up.
: as Ramadhin, Weekes and Frank Worrell all scored ...
The West Indies had a strong batting line up during his prime with Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes dominating the middle order.
Weekes was one of the " Three Ws ", along with Clyde Walcott and Frank Worrell, noted as outstanding batsmen from Barbados who all made their Test debut in 1948 against England.
Walcott believed that Weekes was the best all-round batsman of the three, while Worrell was the best all-rounder and modestly referred to himself as the best wicket keeper of the trio.
After their retirement from cricket, the three remained close and, following the death of Worrell in 1967, Weekes acted as one of the pallbearers at his funeral.
Worrell and Walcott are buried on ground overlooking the oval but there has been no official word from Weekes whether he intends to be buried with them upon his death.
Weekes passed 12, 000 first-class runs in his final innings, becoming only the third West Indian, after Worrell and Roy Marshall, to do so.
At the start of the 1951 season Evans was chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his performances in the 1950 season, the other four recipients of the award – Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell – were members of the victorious West Indian tourists.
He returned to Trinidad and Tobago in 1952, and stood as a Test umpire in the 4th Test between West Indies and England at Port of Spain in March 1953, a high-scoring draw in which West Indies scored an imposing 681 for 8 declared, with the 3 " W " s ( Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott ) all scoring centuries in West Indies ' first innings, and Peter May and Denis Compton doing the same in England's 537 in reply.
Smithson took part in two Test matches in the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados and the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad-where the West Indies trio of Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes first appeared together.
The most prominent Barbadian cricketers include George Challenor, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, Wes Hall, Desmond Haynes, Conrad Hunte, Malcolm Marshall, Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell.

Worrell and Walcott
Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as " The Three Ws " of West Indian cricket.
His homesickness for Barbados was tempered by his landlady's potato pies and the presence of Worrell and Walcott, who were playing for League clubs Radcliffe and Enfield respectively.
During the course of the innings, they bettered the Indian record of 410 between Lala Amarnath and Rusi Modi and the world record of 574 * by Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott.

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* Francis Worrell Stevens, schoolmaster at Loughton
In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group that included Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.
In October 2009, Dr. Delisle Worrell, who is slated to become the replacement Governor of Barbados ' Central Bank of Barbados and current Executive Director of the Centre for Money and Finance at the UWI Cave Hill Campus revealed that " the average Barbadian now earns between BDS $ 200 and BDS $ 499 per week ...."
Australia regained the Frank Worrell Trophy with an innings victory in the Fourth Test at Jamaica, with Taylor taking the winning catch from the bowling of Shane Warne.
On July 23, 1999, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, including noteworthy former members Bootsy and Catfish Collins and Bernie Worrell, performed on stage at Woodstock ' 99.
Musicians such as Bernie Worrell, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker all at one time played with Parliament and / or Funkadelic.
* Bernie Worrell collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive ( currently empty )
* Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
Beginning with the album Bells, a live concert at New York Town Hall with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Lewis Worrell and Sunny Murray, Ayler turned to performances that were chains of marching band-or mariachi-style themes alternating with overblowing and multiphonic freely improvised group solos, a wild and unique sound that took jazz back to its pre-Louis Armstrong roots of collective improvisation.
The first employees were the programmers Jay Patel, Troy Worrell, and Bill Heineman who had previously worked with Fargo at a small video game developer called Boone Corporation.
Sobers took 15 wickets in the 1960-61 series, including a best analysis of 5 / 120, at an average of 39. 20, and his bowling allowed Worrell to play an extra batsman in the final three Tests, thus using Sobers for the first time as a designated all-rounder, a role in which he became the dominant player in world cricket over the next decade, being awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title ( retrospectively ) eight times in 13 years.
Having completed his first tour of England with West Indies in 1957, he followed the advice of his mentor Frank Worrell and became the professional at Radcliffe Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire League, staying for five seasons from 1958 to 1962.
As a member of the team that famously won the Frank Worrell Trophy in the Caribbean in 1995, he made one half-century ( 67 at Antigua ) in six innings.
* Considered by some to be the best Test Match ever competed at the ground, Australia played the West Indies in the fourth test of the Frank Worrell Trophy, 1960 – 61.
Since the 1960 – 61 series, the Frank Worrell Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Test series between Australia and West Indies. One of the two Halls of Residence at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados is named after him.
Laswell retained the Material name and was calling upon a large group of musicians with, at its core, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, keyboardist Jeff Bova, percussionist Aiyb Dieng, former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and bassist Bootsy Collins, plus Jamaican reggae duo Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare ( Sly and Robbie ).
Coy has been married at least twice: first to Rayette Worrell and then to Anita Worrell who may have even more tattoos than her husband!
* Billy Worrell: Ernest's cousin who operates a ride at an amusement park called The Scrambler.
Les Claypool, bassist of many bands, including Primus, collaborated with virtuoso guitarist Buckethead, funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and former Primus drummer Brain ( Bryan Mantia ) under the name Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains ( a combination of all the band members ' names ), after they met at the 2002 Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival.
The trophy is named after the former West Indies captain Sir Frank Worrell, and was first awarded at the end of the 1960-61 series.
Australian cricketer Keith Miller called the ground " the most complete ground in the world ", West Indian legend Frank Worrell stated that the Brabourne was the only ground in the world where he could be in his dressing gown until he had to pad up, hence he loved playing at the venue.
Lindwall ( l ) with ( l to r ) Australian prime minister Robert Menzies | Sir Robert Menzies, his former Test captain Lindsay Hassett and then West Indies ' skipper Frank Worrell at Manuka Oval in 1961.
Jacob Worrell, the youngest of the three, is at Indiana Wesleyan.

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