It's been nearly four years since Bermuda's senior national cricket team played a first class match on home soil.

In 2004 Bermuda hosted the Americas Division One Championships but since earning One Day International (ODI) status a year later they have been unable to produce a facility capable of staging International Cricket Council (ICC) sanctioned ODI matches.

National coach Gus Logie said the failure to host home international matches had done Bermuda cricket and all of their stakeholders a great "disservice".

"I think we have missed the boat since qualifying for the World Cup in 2005 in that we have yet to play an international game in Bermuda. And it is not because teams don't want to come to Bermuda or that we're not able to attract them," the Trinidadian said.

"Bermuda has been afforded ODI status since 2005 and that should mean something. But the fact that we don't have an approved ODI ground to play international cricket means that many of the teams we could've invited here cannot come because they can't play on the pitches that we have.

"This has done a disservice to the whole trust of us getting to the World Cup.

It has taken away a lot of the glitter of us achieving this ultimate goal of qualifying for the World Cup, whereby we could've had international teams coming here."

Logie believes incoming tours can only benefit local cricketers in their development and also be used as a valuable marketing tool in terms of the promotion of the sport, both locally and abroad.

"We need to have competition and teams coming to Bermuda," the former West Indies vice-captain and coach added.

"Once you have international teams coming here with ODI status you are talking about exposure and not only for cricketers but also for umpires who are going to get an opportunity just to be involved with international umpires to see how they operate.

"We are also talking about young children interacting with their stars in a way you would've never dreamed about before and then there's the marketing side of things where we would've been able to sell a lot of things to help promote Bermuda cricket.

"Just think about all the things we lost simply because we don't have a ICC approved field."

Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) president Reggie Pearman said his administration is prepared to do whatever it takes to assist Government and National Sports Centre (NSC) trustees in providing the Island with an ODI approved facility.

"We don't have an (ICC) approved facility on the Island as such and there's nobody more sorry than me that Bermuda hasn't been able to see their national team perform," he said.

"We have cried over it and everything else but we have to accept it for what it is because it's not just about getting a pitch ready and we are working with Government and the (NSC) trustees to get the pitch ready."