The Bermuda cricket team are back in training for another international tournament with the fallout from the Malaysia tour still hanging over the squad.

Despite several players behaving in a manner that Lloyd Fray, the Bermuda Cricket Board president, said should have resulted in them being sent home from the World Cricket League Division Three event last November, not one of those involved has been penalised more than four months later.

In stark contrast, the swift and very public removal of Allan Douglas, who was acting head coach on the tour, came in December, while Lionel Tannock, the long-serving team manager, has also been removed, a punishment the BCB has yet to make public.

Bermuda are scheduled to travel to Indianapolis in May for the ICC Americas Division One Championship, which will serve as regional qualifier for the Twenty20 World Cup, and the squad, which includes players who still have question marks hanging over them, has spent the past couple of weeks training.

Douglas was removed from his position as BCB first vice-president, a decision that he is appealing through arbitration, after Bermuda were relegated to Division Four.

Tannock, meanwhile, was punished for a public confrontation that took place between himself and one of the younger members of the squad.

The board’s inaction when it comes to the players is puzzling, given the strong words that Fray had about the tour in December, when he said that they failed to up hold a proper standard of conduct “on and off the field”.

Particular focus has fallen on Bermuda’s final defeat by United States, a team performance that some who were there felt went beyond a lack of motivation. Coupled with that was behaviour off the field that Fray termed “unprofessional”.

However, the board and Arnold Manders, the head coach, are understood to have held several meetings with players in which the majority of the blame for what happened in Malaysia was laid at Douglas’s feet.

Fray was also determined that the culture within Bermuda cricket would change, that the bad behaviour that players have got away with in the past would no longer be tolerated.

“It’s not going to happen going forward,” Fray said in December.

It is possible, though, that the realities of international competition have changed the board’s point of view. In December, Fray said that he was prepared for a painful few years where the under-19 players would be brought in and a young team would grow together.

Now, Bermuda face a tournament in May that includes the US, who were also relegated to Division Four in November, Canada, and Suriname, with the top two teams earning a spot at the World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland in July.

Nyon Steede, the BCB vice-president who led the investigation into the miserable performance in Malaysia, said that he did not think anything had been ignored in his “comprehensive review” of the tour, but the board’s focus was on seeing how players could be encouraged to give their all for the national cause.

“We’re restructuring how we compensate the national squad players so there is an incentive to do well because the previous structure, regardless of how well you did, or didn’t do, it didn’t affect the amount of money that you got.

“We want to incentivise them to train a little harder, push a little harder.”

Giving the team the ability to win now also appears to have influenced the BCB’s thinking with regards to the ICC Americas tournament, which is why older players such as Kevin Hurdle have been included in the squad.

“We are down in Division Four, so, you can rebuild, but, we want to dominate in Division Four, and quickly move back to Division Three,” Steede said. “If we look to rebuild with the youngsters it might take them a little while, but with the talented players that we have, that might be a little older, I think we can get there a lot quicker.”