The new leadership of the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control will be named next Monday, a spokesman for the club affiliates said last night.

Gary Fray, secretary of Warwick Workmen's Club, said that a "very capable list of officials'' had already been approved and that they will be prepared to be elected into office next week at a meeting at Warwick Workmen's Club.

Fray learned of the resignations of former president Ed Bailey and his executives from The Royal Gazette last night and said that he wasn't surprised by their decision.

"It was clear that the club affiliates felt that they haven't done the job that was needed to be done,'' said Fray.

While aware that the public should be appraised of who was going to be in charge of the Board, Fray assured that steps had been taken by the affiliates to organise and be prepared to have things in place and in running order as soon as possible.

"We have people in place, that's definite,'' he said. "We have people who are most capable of running the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control, and on Monday this will be proven.'' Fray made it clear that there would be no parting shots taken at the outgoing members, each of whom he felt had dedicated many years of loyal service to the sport of cricket.

Any attempt to further criticise Bailey and his group for what they had or had not done was no longer an issue, he noted.

A former executive of the Board himself, Fray also reckoned that it was vital for the incoming group to stay focused on the job at hand which was to revitalise the sport of cricket at a domestic level.

"The clubs took action because we have the best interest of cricket at heart, nothing but that. We respect the work that the outgoing group have done, but we felt that it was now time for a change of direction,'' he said.

There was again no hint of the make-up of the new executives, and it remains to be seen if Fray himself would be seeking an executive position.

Among the former cricketers who were prominent at a special general meeting on Tuesday were Randy Horton, El James, Oliver Bain, John Tucker, Gladston (Sad) Brown, Gregory Foggo and Wendell Smith.

St. George's Cricket Club and Willow Cuts are reported to be the only two clubs who did not back the call for Bailey and his committee to resign. Bailey is a former president of Willow Cuts.

Last night St. George's president Mansfield Smith said that he was surprised by the resignations and again blamed the decline of cricket in the island on some clubs.

"Yes, I was surprised, but I guess the head people always take the blame for things. The clubs have been lacking in some things, especially when it comes to producing youths,'' said Smith. "The BCBC called meetings after meetings to get a junior league off the ground this year and only a few clubs responded. The first meeting there were two, the second just three and then five.

"The clubs have to take some of the blame with what's happening in cricket.

The administration and head of the BCBC is only as strong as the people around him, and the people around him in this case are from the clubs.''