Wednesday, 7th March 2007 at 9:46 am

Bermuda’s 19-stone superstar

Feverpitcher has a new favourite cricketer to watch out for at the World Cup: Dwayne Leverock, Bermuda’s slow left-arm spinner, policeman, and 19-stone superstar. More Inzi than Kate Moss, ‘Sluggo’ caught the world’s attention in Bermuda’s warm-up game against England, taking two for 32 in a display of guile, flight, and some fundamental defiance of the laws of physics.

He’s not Bermuda’s Jonty Rhodes, perhaps, but he’s a lusty hitter of a cricket ball (although Bermuda’s total of 45 in the England game suggests belligerent hundreds from Leverock are unlikely at the World Cup), and more importantly, a character to give the smaller teams a look in on the back pages.

And he’s also an inspiration: after all if a 19-stone cricketer can go to a World Cup, what else might lie ahead? Captaining your country? Captaining the World XI? Dating a celebrity underwear model? Who knows; for plump cricketers around the world, Dwayne Leverock is the new poster boy…