The Bermuda Cricket Board will revert to a two- division format for the 2014 season, The Royal Gazette understands.

The decision was taken at a meeting at BCB headquarters last week and has been welcomed by the critics of the one-league format used last season, which resulted in many one-sided matches.

“We are definitely going back to the two-league system with coloured clothing and a white ball, which I support because you are going to have better cricket every week,” said Malachi Jones, the Willow Cuts and Bermuda all-rounder.

Jones represented his club at last Thursday’s meeting when it was announced that the BCB had decided to reintroduce a Premier Division and First Division for 50-overs matches.

“[The BCB] have not decided on how many teams are actually going to be in the leagues, and it was a decision based on the fact a very important World Cricket League Division Three tournament is coming up in November.

“With this important tournament coming up, as a bowler I told [the BCB] it is hard to adjust in a short period of time from the red ball to the white ball as the red ball holds up longer.

“Furthermore, it does not make sense going to a very important tournament like that, playing your whole league season in whites when nowhere else in the world you play 50-overs cricket in whites.

“We should be playing in coloured clothing and this is something I pushed for at the meeting.”

Jones added: “I believe the one-league system gives the younger players more opportunity to develop, but I do not think the bonus system is suitable for the one league. The bonus points is what really messed up the one league because the bigger clubs were trying to demolish the smaller clubs to try and get as many bonus points as possible.

“It was like the lesser cricketers could not really get a chance to develop because the better cricketers were rolling all over them.”

Stephen Outerbridge, the Bermuda captain, Janeiro Tucker, the Bermuda batsman and Wendell Smith, the St David’s coach, called into question the value of a one-league structure last season.