Allied World is sponsoring the Aquatics Centre swimming pool at the National Sports Centre.

Meanwhile, a deal between the NSC and the Bermuda Tourism Authority has lured Denmark’s swimmers to the Island for a winter training camp in January.

The BTA has also said that it is willing to help visiting teams with the costs of using Bermuda’s best sporting arena as part of their “Bring It Home Campaign”.

Now the Bermuda Cricket Board would like the NSC trustees to do something about the cricket pitch on North Field, which has been deemed unfit for purpose by the International Cricket Council.

A facility that was once good enough to host four-day international matches, the wicket is now so bad that not even domestic finals can be played on it.

Although the cost of using the facility is also a sticking point.

The North Field wicket has been an issue ever since international matches were last played there in August 2014, when an ICC American Under-17 tournament involving Canada and the United States was staged in Bermuda.

After that tournament the pitch was subsequently deemed to be not up to international standard, and when the BCB hosted the ICC Americas Under-19 World Cup Qualifiers this summer, Lord’s, in St David’s, and Somerset Cricket Club were the grounds used.

“We’re still trying to find a way of making things work for both of us,” Neil Speight, the BCB chief executive, said.

“We’ve been speaking with Craig Tyrell [NSC operations manager] in terms of how we can come up a with a win-win scenario because what’s not enough for them [financially] is too much for us at the moment.

“We would want to have a solution up there. It’s the national stadium and we want to play up there.

“For it to be used for international cricket we would have to use it a significant amount first to prove that a quality surface could be produced.”

Tyrell declined to speak in detail about the talks between the NSC and BCB: “We’re in constant conversation with the Bermuda Cricket Board and I’d rather not make any comments on those conversations at this time,” he said.

Not long ago the wicket was good enough to host Intercontinental Cup cricket, and Stephen Outerbridge scored a century for Bermuda against Scotland in 2008 on the fourth day of that match.

“I will never forget Stephen Outerbridge scoring a hundred against Scotland on the fourth day of a four-day game,” Speight said. “What always sticks in my memory is we hosted a four-day game and it held up for four days.

“Canada and the USA came down last year, all the games were at the stadium and the pitch didn’t play at all, in fact one day it was quite dangerous.

“So the ICC said until you know you can get out there, and get on a decent surface, we can’t trust that as a venue. We would want to work with them to be playing international cricket there, so let’s try to do it in the manner that will work for everybody.”

The issue for the BCB and the NSC is that to have a decent playing surface the ground has to be used on a regular basis, the cost of doing so, as far as the BCB is concerned, is prohibitive.

“We’re not going to stop trying, the discussions are ongoing and we’re trying to find a way that we can get regular cricket up there,” Speight said.

“Most people understand that until there is cricket going on there on a regular basis it’s going to be difficult to have confidence that we’re going to get a great surface every time. Having just two games a year is risky.”

• The Bermuda Cricket Board is interviewing four applicants for the national coach position, including Arnold Manders and Clay Smith, the Cleveland coach.

“We had hoped to wrap things up on Saturday gone, but now there is going to be more interviewing and testing this weekend,” Speight said.