Big man's momma says Dwayne is worth the weight

Allison Leverock, the mother of Bermuda’s 120kg bowler Dwayne, wants the world to stop teasing her boy and focus on his spin instead of his size. Dwayne ‘Sluggo’ Leverock picked up two warm-up wickets against England and a wide load of headlines, including 'Bermuda Pie-angle', 'Lard Before Wicket' and 'Owzfat'.

His mum is not pleased and wants everyone to know he’s shed quite a few kilos to play for Bermuda, who face Sri Lanka on Thursday in their first World Cup game. “I have been angry about it,” she said in Bermuda’s Royal Gazette. “Some of them have been very cruel.

“They had a reference to Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor. I don't think that's necessary. People see his size now. They probably don't know he's worked hard to lose a lot of weight. He was over 300 pounds at one point.”

Allison said the big genes are in both sides of the family. "He's my hero,” she said. “He was anyway. Now he's everyone's hero. I'm keeping all the papers for him and doing up a scrapbook."