Sunday, April 22, 2007

A new season and a new hero


At last!

The Cricket World Cup has finally thrown up a hero for all amateur cricketers to worship.

Those of us who stumble about the cricket fields of England believing we are finely tuned athletes have finally found the international role model we mostly resemble. This portly Adonis is called Dwayne Leverock and he plays for Bermuda.

The supple, speedy and springy antics of Collingwood, Clark, Ponting and Gibbs are so last year. Leverock is our rock. From now on, Dwayne reigns.

The 2007 season started for the mighty Penn Fourths away at Cannock & Rugeley. We got off to a bit of a bad start before the match when the caretaker did not turn up to unlock the changing rooms. This meant peeling off our clothes pitchside and revealing our Leverock-esque figures to the local residents whose houses overlooked the grounds. I was sure I spotted a camcorder poking out between a pair of twitching curtains.

I spent most of Sunday morning searching the internet for 'tubbycricketersinthealtogether.com' just to see if any of us had made it as 'Mr. April'.

And to all those mothers/wives/girlfriends in their cars who pretended to turn away as we changed - I know you were using your wing mirrors.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Dave your not on tubby site but catched u on a youtube vid under tinky winky search!! leave cricket to lad now(but may do the odd friendly).I tend too prop up bar..for now blocker lane..!

cricket pinup said...

Hi David
How come I never around when the real action takes place? Naked cricketer totty??? Ooooh Matron