Do you dig Bermuda? And all 20 stones/140 Kilograms of my man, Dwayne Leverock. And that incredible catch that Leverock took against India the other day. Folks watch this lovely tribute to the old man.
And that young kid, Malachi Jones, the first ever player to take a wicket with his first world cup delivery. All of Seventeen years old.
Bermuda are this World Cup’s Togo!
If you remember, last summer Togolese, led by their mercurial forward Emmanuel Adebayor of Arsenal, entertained us immensely in the Soccer World Cup. Bermuda don’t do any of the nakras that Togo team did. (To jog your memory here is how Togo’s World Cup unfolded: Manager quit before the first game, only to come back; the team almost opted not to play the second and were eliminated before the third game began. It was compelling drama, with each new development more implausible than the previous one.)
Bermuda are like me playing league cricket now. Not as good as Ireland or Bangladesh, the two heroic teams of this World Cup, whose exploits are worthy of ballads. But how do you not love this most unlikely cricket player on the international scene. A police man, and prison van driver, who lives above a curry house and seems to live to eat enormous quantities of his favorite dish, beef Korma.
What a character!
Dwayne, take a bow. We will watch you give hell to Bangladesh.
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