In a stirring address to journalists and members of the Jamaican cricket fraternity at the Kingston Cricket Club at Sabina Park in Kingston on Thursday, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles paid tribute to Sir Frank Worrell, calling him “cricket’s first revolutionary” and a pivotal figure in the Caribbean’s fight against colonialism, racial inequality, and institutional elitism. The occasion was the introduction of Beckles’ latest book, Cricket’s First Revolutionary: Frank Worrell’s Political War Against Colonialism in the West Indies, a deeply researched narrative that casts Worrell not just as a cricketing icon, but as a nation-builder and moral compass for a region in transition.