Cricket World Cup

Bermuda's national sport is undoubtedly cricket, and ever since the Cricket World Cup started everyone is talking about it and Bermuda's chances. Unfortunately Bermudians don't have very realistic expectations of their team. Despite losing by 243 and 257 runs to Sri Lanka and India respectively, this excerpt featured on the front page of the paper before their final pool match against Bangladesh:

Unbelievably, Bermuda the smallest country ever to qualify and the biggest outsiders in competition history, are mathematically still alive and in with a chance of qualifying for the next stage... the door into the so-called Super Eights remains slightly open.

I'm willing to bet anything they don't go through.

On the positive side, Bermuda have been one of the more colourful teams of the competition primarily through Dwayne "Sluggo" Leverock. This guy underwent a vigorous training regime before the Cup started and dropped 2 stone to his present weight of 19 stone. Despite not looking the part of a cricketer, he's probably performed the best of Bermuda's players by bowling economically and taking this fantastic catch:

And then doing this jig:

When the team returns to Bermuda later this week, this guy's going to be a super star.