Possible Clues:

• Local drugs to blow your mind perhaps from Panama
• Caps, e.g
• Hats, helmets etc.
• Cap or helmet
• Avoid committing oneself to a run, blocking a bowler perhaps
• Bowler, perhaps, with a hard edge played dismissing squad's tail-ender
• Had eager spin bowler?
• Make grade, somehow, after he secures a cap, say
• Dicky, eager, had this worn on top
• Football helmet, e.g.