Cricket’s First Revolutionary: Frank Worrell’s Political War Against Colonialism in the West Indies (Ian Randle Publishers) by UWI Vice Chancellor Hilary McD. Beckles is a biographical study of the celebrated Barbadian cricketer focused on his intellectual and political impact — specifically, his career-long anticolonial activism. Worrell “dismantled the colonial elite order of West Indies cricket and ushered an era of democracy and grassroots liberation,” says the publisher. “No other democratic leader in the West Indies achieved this phenomenal reputation.”