Bermuda board 'utterly appalled' by attack

The Bermuda Cricket Board is facing a possible vote of no confidence at a special general meeting later this month. The move comes amid reports of growing dissatisfaction with the way the game is being run.

Matters came to a head last week when board delegates walked out of a meeting with club officials, leading to a motion for a special meeting to be called an a no-confidence proposal to be raised.

"The greater majority of the clubs are dissatisfied with the way the board is presently running," Devonshire Recreation club president Ellsworth Christopher told the Royal Gazette. "We don't want to damage the image of cricket but rather feel that the current administration have run their course and maybe it's now time for a change. Information from the BCB has been so lean and whenever we do find out anything it is through the media which goes out to the general public. Eighty percent of the policies implemented in recent years have been handed down to the affiliates."

But Marc Wetherhill, the BCB secretary, said they "utterly rejected" most of the grievances leveled. "We at the board are utterly appalled by what is going on and the unadulterated rubbish which is being bandied about by the ringleaders of this group," he told the newspaper. "We are now in possession of their issue list, which is in some places simply misleading and in other places totally inaccurate and untrue.

"It is difficult for me to put into words quite how disturbed I and the rest of the executive committee are by this whole episode and the way some members of this group have conducted themselves. We will be doing everything we can to ensure that the personal agendas of a few individuals do not prevail and do not further damage and undermine the state of Bermuda cricket, both now and in the future."

The issue was further clouded when some of the club delegates distanced themselves from the move against the board claiming that they had failed to appreciate what was being proposed.