Dion Stovell is contemplating throwing in his cricket whites.

Frustrated at being banned the majority of last season and then overlooked for this month?s ICC Intercontinental Cup in Namibia, the outspoken opening batsman threatened yesterday to quit the game altogether ? but not before taking a mighty swipe at Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) executive Gary Fray.

In an emotionally-charged interview with , Stovell vented: ?I don?t want to have anything to do with cricket as long as Gary Fray is involved. . . ever. After the way he has treated me I don?t want anything to do with cricket.

?Everybody is saying this and that but they don?t really know how I feel or what actually happened in that meeting. I just don?t want to have anything to do with it anymore.?

Stovell served a lengthy four-month Board-imposed ban for reluctantly leaving the crease when judged leg before by the umpire representing Bermuda at the youth level in Jamaica in 2004.

Upon his return, Stovell, who did acknowledge he was on probation during the Island?s tour of the Caribbean for a previous incident, sought a transfer to neighbouring Southampton Rangers but was subsequently banned for the overseas incident by a BCB disciplinary committee headed by Fray.

As president of Warwick, many deemed Fray?s involvement in Stovell?s disciplinary proceedings to be a direct conflict of interests while, in accordance with the ICC code of conduct, the player?s offence only called for a deduction in match fees as opposed to a lengthy ban.

Stovell then acquired legal representation and threatened to take the matter to arbitration or, if need be, court ? but eventually had a change of heart and sat out the ban instead.

But in an e-mail sent to and the Board secretary Marc Wetherhill yesterday, Stovell?s legal representative Charles Richardson wrote: ?Things over there have to change. Distrust of the administrative leadership of the BCB could have a negative effect on our World Cup preparation. The players need to feel that they are a part of open relationship and not a clever dictatorship that retaliates against those who dare to have any opinion.?

Stovell, continued: ?Fray has knocked cricket right out of me. He should have never done what he did. When I came back from Jamaica I handed in my release but in the meeting Fray, Colin Blades and Molly (Charlotte Simons) were all attacking me and so I stood my ground and told them how I felt.

?Fray did not like the way I spoke to him and so I told him ?if you want me to show you respect, then you must also show a bit of respect?. But he didn?t like that.?was informed yesterday that both Fray and Blades are presently off Island while Simons opted not to publicly comment on the matter.

Stovell sat out the majority of the season through suspension and only made his debut for Rangers in late August before being invited to train with the national squad for last August?s Intercontinental Cup matches against Canada and the Cayman Islands in Toronto.

?I get called up for the national squad and word reaches me that Fray is telling everybody he doesn?t want me to play in the squad because I haven?t played cricket all season,? he claimed.

Given Bermuda?s shaky top batting order, many perceived Stovell to be a suitable candidate for the job and among the Island?s brightest 2007 World Cup prospects.

?Thanks to Fray and his BCB disciplinary committee I?m just not up to playing cricket anymore. I don?t want to be a part of something where individuals try to discourage young people from playing cricket.?

After repeated attempts to reach comment from the BCB, they did not respond.