[1][2] Brian Lara is the most successful batsman in the history of the trophy, scoring 2,815 runs for the West Indies in 56 innings at an average of 52.12.

[16] Frank Worrell became the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team prior to their 1960–61 tour of Australia.

[18] The West Indies team received acclaim for their performances, the whole series was played in a convivial manner,[20] and the Australians, suitably impressed by Worrell, named the trophy after him.

[24][25] With the West Indies team departing to join Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket as the World Series Cricket West Indies XI, Australia managed a victory against the second-string team in the third Test but were beaten by 198 runs in the fourth.

[30] The West Indies were consistently superior over the next three series, winning seven Test matches to Australia's three, thereby holding the Frank Worrell Trophy from 1978 to 1993.

The fourth and final Test was later referred to as "make or break for both teams" by the Australian bowler Paul Reiffel.

That series saw the Australians whitewash the Caribbeans, winning 5–0, the first such result since the West Indies toured Australia and New Zealand in 1930–31.

[36] The defeat was unsurprising; the West Indies had been whitewashed in their previous three Test series, in Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand.

[11] Overall, Australia have won 50 of the 105 Test matches played for the Frank Worrell Trophy, with the West Indies winning 31.