Dubai Sport City UAE, 205-5, beat Bermuda, 204, by five wicketsDwayne Leverock may be in the twilight of his career, but that doesn’t mean the Leverock name is going to disappear from the international scene any time soon.The next generation has picked up the mantle, and Kamau Leverock’s first international 50 on Saturday suggests he may well be carrying it for some time.Still only 16 years old, Leverock wasn’t even supposed to come to the UAE training camp, but Terryn Fray’s decision not to travel opened a door that the young PHC batsman has jumped through with both feet.From the moment he got off the mark by slapping Shoaib Sarwan for four, Leverock looked at home in the Bermuda team, and not a bit over-awed by the fact that head coach David Moore had promoted him to number three in the batting order.“It feels great to have my first international 50, it just shows how hard work pays off. I spent a lot of time before we left working in the nets,” said Leverock.Moore used Saturday’s game as an opportunity to give some players a rest, and other players some much-needed match practice. So, out went Stefan Kelly, Damali Bell, Lionel Cann and Dion Stovell, and in came Leverock, Chris Foggo, Jordan DeSilva, and Kyle Hodsoll. Leverock took the chance to shine, not everyone however followed his example as some of the bad habits, and inconsistencies that have plagued the team in the past reared their ugly heads.Once again the indiscipline in the bowling didn’t help Bermuda’s cause, and while defending 204 was always going to be a difficult task, sending down 32 extras, 23 of those wides, didn’t help either. It would be wrong though to think that the reason for the defeat lay in the fielding performance. As indifferent as it was, the foundations were laid in a batting display that started brightly, and then ended in a whimper.In the absence of Dion Stovell, Moore re-jigged the batting order, asking Jason Anderson and Chris Foggo to open, and for a while, things were going well.The pair put on 49 before Anderson (25), who had been along largely untroubled, played down the line to Sarwan and lost his middle stump.Foggo (29) followed soon after, he padded up to Ahmed Raza and was given out lbw. Still, at 78 for two Bermuda were still in a relatively strong position.Leverock by that time was well entrenched and scoring freely off all the UAE bowlers, seam and spin alike. He and skipper David Hemp put on 52 for the fourth wicket, after Fiqre Crockwell (13) had run himself out, and Leverock brought up his 50, and his side’s 150, with another into the onside, off spinner Saqib Ali. Leverock was finally out moments later attempting another sweep shot, however this time he got a leading edge to an Arshad Ali delivery and the ball looped up and into the hands of wicketkeeper Abdul Rehman.The teenager’s departure signalled the start of a Bermuda collapse that was entirely down to the remaining batsmen’s inability to impose themselves on a UAE team that relies overly heavily on spinners.When Leverock departed Bermuda were 154 for four, with 16 overs remaining. A little more than 15 overs later, Bermuda were all out for 204, and the main architects of the team’s demise were Arshad Ali, who took three for 32 from ten overs, and Ahmed Raza, who took two for 32.Try as they might Bermuda could not escape the squeeze UAE placed upon them, and the measly 22 runs that they managed from their five power play overs is something that will have to be improved upon before April.Mind you, this was far from being Bermuda’s strongest team, and the fact that Cann and Stovell weren’t playing will not have been lost on many.Still, they might have won on Saturday, if they had been able to build on a bright start by Malachi Jones who took two wickets in one over to reduce UAE to 35 for two.However, without the support of Bell and Kelly, there was less bite to the Bermuda bowling attack than was necessary to defend such a low total, and with the extras regularly relieving any pressure that might have been building, UAE’s win in the end was a comfortable one.After the wickets, Arshad Ali (62) and Saqib Ali (43) put on 97 for the third wicket, and then Arfan Haider (37*) and Vikrant Shetty (19) put on 50 for the fifth wicket, as the home side won with nine overs to spare.