night, determined to see his plans to improve the game come to fruition.

At the annual meeting of Bermuda Cricket Board of Control at Warwick Workmen's Club, James was re-elected president.

A new administrator is to be hired to take some of the workload from James, who became a Government MP last November.

Among his proposals to improve Bermudian cricket is the visit of a current Test player to the Island to work with local coaches.

And he wants to make games against Canada and the US, at junior and senior level, annual fixtures.

James is also keen to consign to the past the controversial question of what happened to nearly $20,000 taken from a BCBC bank account, which was never accounted for.

And he wants to close the matter of how much Australian coach Bobby Simpson was paid when he acted as a consultant to the Bermuda ICC Trophy team in Malaysia in 1997.

"Rather than digging into something that is done, something we can do nothing about, we want to look to the future,'' said James, referring to the Barclays Bank account in England, which dwindled from $21,083.99 to $642.38.

"We have closed that English bank account and now we will need two signatures to take money out. Rather than looking backwards, we have put our house in order.

"We can't account for what happened under the previous administration and we're not going to try to. And there is no executive from that administration to help us find out.

And he felt further investigation into the amount paid to Simpson, understood to be in the region of $40,000, was now unnecessary.

"I don't know why people keep asking about how much Bobby Simpson was paid and I don't don't know what rationale was used to work out how much it should be. Whatever was done, we can't undo it.'' The hunt is now on for a part-time administrator to look after the day-to-day administration of the BCBC.

James said: "We are looking for someone who knows a bit about the game, preferably someone who has been active in sport and is looking for a few hours a week.'' He said he had had a "busy, but enjoyable time'' since being elected a PLP MP on November 9 and the plan for a new administrator, by reducing the time he needed to put in as BCBC president, had persuaded him to run for another term.

James felt he would have been leaving a job half-done if he had declined the chance to remain president. "We have some big plans afoot at the moment and I felt I should see them through to fruition,'' he said.

One of those plans was to bring a top coach to the Island to work with youth and senior coaches, and school teachers who were interested, with the aim of bringing them up to levels one and two.

"We want to bring up the standard of coaching and instruction in the game throughout the Island and create a pool of quality coaches,'' said James.

He also wants to see annual matches against Canada and possibly also the US, with junior internationals before Cup Match and senior matches after it.