The Elite Player League stumbled dozily through its second round of matches this weekend producing the sort of cricket it was designed to eliminate, writes Josh Ball.Introduced as a means of bridging the yawning gap between the Premier Division and international cricket, Saturday’s snooze-fest at the National Sports Centre has instead put the comeptition in doubt.Bermuda Cricket Board officials are due to meet today to discuss the league’s future, knowing that it has yet to capture the imagination of either the fans or the players.Of the 44 players on show in Saturday’s double-header, only 16 could be described as ‘elite’, while the rest were wannabes, also-rans, and never-will-bes.The reason so few ‘elite’ players were on show is that 18 players made themselves unavailable through injury, suspensions and other commitments. Of those, Justin Pitcher listed himself as injured and yet played for club side St David’s yesterday, while Delyone Borden and Jason Anderson were suspended for failing to show up last week.This week there were more no-shows, and the first game saw Symonds XI play with just nine men.They still beat Hunts XI, even if skipper Dion Stovell did appear to lose interest half way through his innings of 66, although given the lack of intensity on display, it’s also possible that he just fell asleep.That isn’t too say there weren’t some positives to take from Saturday’s matches. Chris Douglas (27) and Regino Smith (44) both batted well for Simmons XI in their side’s defeat by Parfitt XI, but they were rare bright moments on an otherwise dull occasion.As a theory the league has a lot to commend it, namely bringing the Island’s best players together on the best ground, to hopefully produce some intense, quality cricket that mirrors the sort found at a higher level.In practice too few players have bought into the idea, meaning there is little passion for the matches, and the default position for many is to still try and hit the ball out of the ground, rather than working it into the gaps and picking up singles.However, not everyone in the BCB believes the league is a lost cause, and there have been several suggestions as to where it might go from here. One is to take the league around the club grounds, in the hope that it generates more –interest among the fans, while –another suggestion has been to –reduce the league to just three teams.Head coach David Moore’s main concern, meanwhile, must be that several key players, who he would like to select for the Twenty20 World Cup Regional Qualifiers in Florida in July, don’t appear to have realised the importance of the league in his selection process.In order to combat this it is possible that the BCB will reduce the league to just two teams, use the remaining games as trial matches, and play them at night in the hope of boosting crowd numbers.Whatever the outcome, Moore, the team coaches, and the BCB have two weeks before the next round of the Elite Player League is due to be played to decide what –to do.