New details have emerged concerning Allen Richardson’s late withdrawal from Bermuda Cricket Board’s presidential race.The former St George’s Cup Match batsman told reporters following the election that he had withdrawn his candidacy at the 11-hour.Richardson said he withdrew because he did not feel he had the reserves to tackle some of the other challenges associated with running local cricket’s governing body.However, various reliable sources have revealed that Richardson was never nominated by a BCB affiliate to run against Fray, Ed Bailey and Clay Smith for the Board’s highest elected post. And that claim was backed up by the BCB first vice-president’s club, St David’s County Cricket Club, who backed Fray instead.Richardson, who cited work commitments as the reason for showing up late for Tuesday’s AGM at Charities House, declined to comment when reached yesterday.Following the well-attended meeting he told The Royal Gazette: “It would have been nice to be in the running, but I feel that I don’t want all the headaches that I will run into.“After awhile I looked at the whole picture and saw what was going on and didn’t like it and said to myself ‘do I have enough time and energy to focus on all the things that come with that job’? I have enough energy to deal with cricketing matters but not the reserve to deal with the other things that may come with it that I have seen in this election campaign.”At one stage it seemed as though Richardson would run unopposed for the BCB leadership before Fray, Bailey and Smith entered the race. But his decision to preside over sensitive disciplinary hearings is believed to have ruffled feathers in the cricket fraternity and his later outburst during an interview with BCB affiliates may not have done his bid to succeed Reggie Pearman any favours either.On the eve of the election Richardson took a potshot at fellow presidential candidates Fray and Smith who he felt did not have the “full roundness” to lead the BCB from the front.However, since then he has had a change of heart and instead thrown his support behind new BCB boss Fray who scored an emphatic win at the polls without hardly breaking a sweat.”I am happy that it is him that was voted in,” he said. “I think cricket will benefit a lot from him and I will give him my full support.”Tuesday marked the second time that Richardson has come up short in his bid to become BCB president having lost to incumbent Pearman on a tie break in 2007.