Australia has wrapped up the Frank Worrell Trophy for the 12th straight time after making short work of the visitors on Sunday’s fourth day of the second Test.
But fill-in skipper Steve Smith made a hilarious faux pas, breaking the Frank Worrell Trophy before dropping the broken part on David Warner’s foot.
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The trophy has been awarded in series between Australia and the West Indies since 1960-61, but Australia has held the silverware since the 1994/95 series in the West Indies, including winning the last seven straight series to nil.
Australia has not lost to the West Indies in the last 19 Test matches (15 wins and four draws), the last time was back in 2003 in the West Indies.
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The trophy, which has a wood finish base and silver trophy topped with a cricket ball, was broken when Smith knelt down to take the team photo.
As he lowered himself down, he put his weight on the ball, with the Fox Cricket vision showing the ball moving has he reached the ground.
Soon after, he was holding the ball, trying to work out how to get it back on the base.
Hilariously, he had to hold it onto the trophy while the picture was taken.
But when he stood up, he accidentally dropped it on Warner’s foot.
“Have they just taken the ball off the top of the trophy? I hope not,” Adam Gilchrist asked 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 known as the Nelson Mandela of cricket. He died in 1967 after being diagnosed of leukaemia at the age of 42.
While a moment of levity for Australia after a dire series where the West Indies had been accused of not caring, not trying and playing at club cricket level, the Windies were trying to pick up the pieces.
The final 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 however, lamenting the nation’s fall from grace from an international powerhouse to an international laughing stock.
“No, I don’t think we’ve hit rock bottom yet, because every time I think we have, we just keep going lower,” he said 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.”
