 At the beginning of 1967, Worrell was in India on a university lecture tour, inspiring young people from different backgrounds to share the same ideals. He was taken ill. He flew back to Jamaica, where he was diagnosed with leukaemia. Frank's teammate, Jackie Hendricks, was one of the last people to visit him. I went to the hospital and saw him, you know, lying there, and he was still without sense of humour.