Australia has wrapped up the Frank Worrell Trophy for the twelfth straight time after making brief work of the guests on Sunday’s fourth day of the second Test.
But fill-in skipper Steve Smith has made a hilarious fake pas, breaking the Frank Worrell Trophy earlier than dropping the damaged half on David Warner’s foot.
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The trophy has been awarded in collection between Australia and the West Indies since 1960-61, however Australia has held the silverware for the reason that 1994/95 collection within the West Indies, together with successful the final seven straight collection to nil.
Australia has not misplaced to the West Indies within the final 19 Test matches (15 wins and 4 attracts), the final time was again in 2003 within the West Indies.
The trophy, which has a wooden end base and silver trophy topped with a cricket ball, was damaged when Smith kneeled all the way down to take the group photograph.
As he lowered himself down, he put his weight on the ball, with the Fox Cricket imaginative and prescient displaying the ball shifting has he reached the bottom.
Soon after, he was holding the ball, attempting to work out find out how to get it again on the bottom.
Hilariously, he needed to maintain it onto the trophy whereas the image was taken.
But when he stood up, he unintentionally dropped it on Warner’s foot.
“Have they just taken the ball off the top of the trophy? I hope not,” Adam Gilchrist requested his fellow Fox Sports commentators.
CODE Sports’ Daniel Cherny wrote: “Steve Smith: “Hopefully someone can glue it back together.””
Sir Frank Worrell was the second black captain of the West Indies and is named the Nelson Mandela of cricket. He died in 1967 after being recognized of leukaemia on the age of 42.
While a second of levity for Australia after a dire collection the place the West Indies had been accused of not caring, not attempting and taking part in at membership cricket stage, the Windies had been attempting to select up the items.
The remaining six wickets fell for 25 runs on Sunday as Australia romped to a 419 run win.
West Indian cricket legend Carl Hooper was at a loss nonetheless, lamenting the nation’s fall from grace from a world powerhouse to a world laughing inventory.
“No, I don’t think we’ve hit rock bottom yet, because every time I think we have, we just keep going lower,” he mentioned on ABC Sport.
“It’s embarrassing. I’m hurt. I’ve never played in a West Indies side that has been bowled out for under 100.”
