Young Men's Social Club player Detroy Smith, facing a number of charges following last Sunday's highly-charged match against Southampton Rangers, has accused umpire Kent Gibbons of bias.

Smith and Gibbons clashed after Social Club skipper Charlie Marshall had been given out, run out, after two intial appeals, the first for LBW and the second for the run out, had been turned down.

Smith, whose confrontation with the umpire was captured on video, marched onto the pitch to protest against a decision he believes Gibbons made under duress.

According to spectators and a Royal Gazette reporter, furious Rangers players surrounded umpire Richard Burrows at square leg, when he turned down their second appeal.

However, Smith is the only player from the bad-tempered game who is being hauled before the Bermuda Cricket Board disciplinary committee.

While he fully acknowledged what he did was wrong and is prepared to accept any punishment the BCB deems fit, Smith yesterday questioned why he was being singled out by umpire Gibbons.

"Why I was the only one written up?" he asked.

"It seems like some type of favouritism going on. All their players (Rangers) ran at the umpire, although he wasn't an official umpire. The official umpire could have stepped in and written them up."

"My team aren't planning to appeal because both they, and I, know what I did was wrong, and I will apologise for my actions."

The BCB policy is to only act on incidents contained in the umpire's report, and a source within the cricket board confirmed that there was no mention of any Rangers player misbehaving from umpire Gibbons.

"We are not sure of our ground legally if an incident is not in the umpire's report," said a BCB official.

"However, we don't just take an umpire's report into consideration, the captains from both teams are supposed to send us reports each weekend.

"We encourage them to do this, and if Social Club sent us a report detailing the actions of the Rangers players, then we could act."

It is unclear why the umpire left out any Rangers players from his report, although Smith believes it was because some of those Rangers players involved where household names.

"It was a name thing to some extent in regards to them not being written up," said Smith, "because we had a run out decision turned down when we were fielding.

"We asked the umpire if he was out and he said 'no' even though we knew, and saw, he was clearly out. But we carried on with the game because the umpire made his decision . . . the game goes on."

n Willow Cuts and Leg Trappers have been awarded the points from the two abandoned First Division matches last weekend.

Bermuda Cricket Board announced yesterday that Cuts would receive the points from their game against Devonshire Rec., whose father and son pair, Ricky Brangman sr and Lamont Brangman, were involved in an altercation prior to the umpire calling the game off.

Trappers will get the victory over Western Stars, whose player Treadwell Gibbons jr is alleged to have smashed up equipment in Trappers' makeshift changing room following a heated dispute on the field.

Members of the BCB Cricket Committee met and reviewed reports from four recent matches and also decided that Young Men's Social Club and PHC would receive one point each after their game on June 27 when insufficient overs were bowled to provide a result.

Police, meanwhile, have been given the points for their abandoned match against PHC at White Hill Field on June 14 due to the pitch being deemed too dangerous to play because of insufficient preparation.