Bermuda Cricket Board executive committee met in secret last week to discuss the sport’s increasingly precarious future.The meeting, which the Board have refused to acknowledge publicly, let alone discuss, came on the back of the national team’s disastrous performance at the World Cricket League Division Two tournament, and was reportedly called by vice-president Lloyd Fray.A number of issues are –understood to have been on the agenda, including the need to –re-writre the Board’s budget, the futures of head coach David Moore and chief executive Neil Speight, and relocating the Board’s Hamilton offices.While moving offices might not seem that important in the current climate, the BCB pay –between $6,000-$7,000 a month rent for their premises on Gorham Road, and several members have pointed to this as an example of where money might be saved by moving out of the city. It has also emerged that the governing body have been spending roughly $50,000 a year sending the Under-13s on tour to play in the Sir Garfield Sobers tournament.The loss of nearly a $1million in the past month, $600,000 was cut from Government funding and $400,000 from the loss of the ICC grant, means that such luxuries, along with a wage bill that tops $600,000 are simply no longer affordable.As an Associate nation there are certain financial obligations that Bermuda have no choice but to fullfil, namely the national team’s attendance at the Twenty20 World Cup Regional Qualifiers in Florida in July, as well as providing several educational courses during the year. And although a source within the executive confirmed that the BCB had a little money put by for a rainy day, they said that it wouldn’t last beyond this year.“We have a little windfall, we’re straight for about a year,” said the BCB source. “With the next Budget, if we don’t (get more), some very hard decisions will have to be made.”The money that has already been put aside seems to have secured Moore’s immediate future. Certainly there is no desire to lose the services of the Australian, especially as the Board appear to be pinning their hopes of a better financial future on the team’s performances on the field.“We’re hoping that within Division Three we start picking up some results and then hopefully things will swing around (financially),” said the Board insider.It is 18 months, though, until the team will get the chance to escape from the third tier of the World Cricket League, and there is another Budget to come before then.Speight’s future seems far less certain with some elements openly questioning whether he is the right person to lead Bermuda cricket out of the depths into which they have sunk in recent years.Those who have been questioning the chief executive’s –future point to the Board’s strategic plan which, among other things, states that its goals include “finishing in the top two at WCL in 2011”, “to grow reserves and maintain long-term funding”, and “to implement a rolling four year National Development Plan”.“I think that’s something we are seriously going to have to look at, to be quite honest,” said the BCB source. “Is he the best person to take the BCB –forward?”President Reggie Pearman has also come in for some flak behind closed doors, however –after saying that he will be standing down in October, Board members seem to be willing to allow him to see out his term relatively unscathed.The Board have so far refused all requests to comment on the state of Bermuda cricket, and even pulled out of a round-table discussion immediately –following the team’s failure in Dubai. That too has not gone down well with certain sections of the BCB.“We can’t come out of this (relegation) and pretend it didn’t happen,” said the Board insider, “pulling out of that discussion really pissed me off.”