The Frank Worrell Trophy is awarded for the winner of the West Indies

West Indian cricket team

The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

 - Australia

Australian cricket team

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 Test match series in cricket

Cricket

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The trophy is named after the former West Indies captain Sir Frank Worrell

Frank Worrell

Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator...

, and was first awarded at the end of the 1960-61 series. The cricket Board of Control and Sir Donald Bradman

Donald Bradman

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 commissioned former Test cricketer and professional jeweller Ernie McCormick

Ernie McCormick

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 to create a perpetual trophy. The trophy was to be presented to the winning captain of each Test series between Australia and the West Indies.

The trophy's design incorporated a ball used in the Tied Test

Tied Test

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. Along with The Ashes

The Ashes

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, The Frank Worrell Trophy, is considered to be one of the most respected trophies in the world of cricket.

List of Frank Worrell Trophy series

Series	Season	Played in	First match	Tests played	Tests won by Australia	Tests won by West Indies	Tests drawn	Series result	Holder at series end
1	1960-61	Australia	9 December 1960	5	2	1	1*	Australia	Australia
2	1964-65	West Indies	3 March 1965	5	1	2	2	West Indies	West Indies
3	1968-69	Australia	6 December 1968	5	3	1	1	Australia	Australia
4	1972-73	West Indies	16 February 1973	5	2	0	3
5	1975-76	Australia	28 November 1975	6	5	1	0
6	1977-78	West Indies	3 March 1978	5	1	3	1	West Indies	West Indies
7	1979-80	Australia	1 December 1979	3	0	2	1
8	1981-82	Australia	26 December 1981	3	1	1	1	Drawn
9	1983-84	West Indies	2 March 1984	5	0	3	2	West Indies
10	1984-85	Australia	9 November 1984	5	1	3	1
11	1988-89	Australia	18 November 1988	5	1	3	1
12	1990-91	West Indies	1 March 1991	5	1	2	2
13	1992-93	Australia	27 November 1992	5	1	2	2
14	1994-95	West Indies	31 March 1995	4	2	1	1	Australia	Australia
15	1996-97	Australia	22 November 1996	5	3	2	0
16	1998-99	West Indies	5 March 1999	4	2	2	0	Drawn
17	2000-01	Australia	23 November 2000	5	5	0	0	Australia
18	2002-03	West Indies	10 April 2003	4	3	1	0
19	2005-06	Australia	3 November 2005	3	3	0	0
20	2008	West Indies	22 May 2008	3	2	0	1
21	2009-10	Australia	26 November 2009	3	2	0	1

Summary of wins and draws

Totals up to and including the 2009-10 series in Australia
	Played	Won by Australia	Won by West Indies	Drawn
Tests	93	41 (44%)	30 (32%)	22 (23%)
Series	21	11 (52%)	8 (38%)	2 (9%)