Fiqre Crockwell, the St George’s Cup Match and Bermuda cricketer, was caught red-handed as he tried to throw six wraps of heroin out of a window as police raided his home.

Crockwell was fined $800 after he admitted possessing a controlled drug at Magistrates’ Court yesterday, prompting magistrate Archibald Warner to question: “Maybe he should not be representing his country?”

The 29-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman, who scored a second-innings fifty at last year’s Cup Match in Somerset, had initially been charged with possessing the heroin with intent to supply.

The charge was dropped by prosecutors halfway through the trial and Crockwell pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of simple possession of the drugs.

Earlier, the court had heard that police descended on the cricketer’s home in Old Maid’s Lane in St George’s at about 5.25pm on August 27, 2013.

Pc Shannon Swan described how he restrained Crockwell on a bed after seeing him throw “something silver” out of the window.

During the search, officers found six wraps of heroin on the window sill that were later examined and estimated to be worth $120.

Crockwell was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station. He was later charged with possessing the drugs with intent to supply and due to stand trial yesterday.

At the end of the prosecution case, his lawyer, Simone Smith-Bean, successfully argued that the 0.47 gram weight of the heroin seized did not reach the statutory threshold of one gram needed to amount to a charge of possession with intent to supply.

She told the court that Crockwell was a man of good character and urged Mr Warner to impose a conditional discharge on her client so he could travel with the national cricket team and pursue his sporting ambitions.

“He takes full responsibility for being in possession of the drugs,” she said.

“The drugs did not belong to him. The drugs were left at his house by someone else and he was trying to discard them when the police came to his house so he did not get in trouble.”

Ms Smith-Bean said that Crockwell was “very embarrassed” by the incident, and had been “blasted” in the newspaper and unable to play or train with the national cricket team.

Mr Warner responded: “Perhaps he should be kept away and not be involved with these pure sports.

“He has given an explanation of how he came to have the drugs. I do not accept what he says.”

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