Reggie Pearman will have four more years to implement his cricket master plan after members agreed to several key changes at the Bermuda Cricket Board's annual general meeting.

Pearman was re-elected unopposed as BCB president at the two-and-a-half hour gathering at Warwick Workmen's Club last night and had his term of office increased from one to four years.

Members - who also agreed to drop the word 'Control' from Bermuda Cricket Board of Control - agreed that the president, as well as the treasurer's, time in office should be extended in order to "improve continuity".

The posts of first vice president and secretary are to run for two years initially and then increase to four years coterminous, or without a break, from 2005, while the second vice president and assistant secretary will be in office for one year initially but be increased to four from next year.

It was rumoured that Pearman might face a challenge for the top job from former president Ed Bailey, but the move never materialised.

Instead, Bailey went for the post of first vice president - vacated after just one year by Keith Wainwright. But he was beaten by Gary Fray, formerly the second vice president. That role was taken over by Elsworth Christopher, while Marc Wetherhill was elected assistant secretary.

Pearman said he was "glad" to be re-elected.

"It's a commitment that I had made and hopefully we can accomplish more of what we set out to do," he said.

Explaining the changes to the tenure, Pearman said: "I think it will enhance the board because we will have the continuity there now.

"Before you would come up to a meeting, get put out and then you have got to start all over again."

As for the dropping of the word Control, which has been in the BCB's title since the mid-40s, Pearman said his organisation was just following suit with many others around the world.

"It's more or less in keeping with the international scene. Control is dropped from most of the other major boards around the world so we decided we would drop ours," he said. "The members were in total agreement with it."

Pearman said he was happy with the way the AGM had gone.

"It was a good meeting, the members were well informed," he said. "We are in a really good financial position and we hope to maintain that with the help of Government and the sponsors that have come on board and we are looking for new sponsors as we go forward.

"We have quite an ambitious programme coming up. We have two tours to get out this year, along with the possibility of a couple of incoming tours.

"The executive is a good executive . . . the stability is there and we can go forward and plan ahead."