Recommended changes to the structure of cricket on the Island have been placed in the hands of a seven-man committee for further consideration.

The Bermuda Cricket Board of Control and Club affiliates came up with the agreement during Saturday's meeting at Warwick Workmen's Club when they met to discuss various proposals put forward by national coach Mark Harper.

The committee will include Harper, an official from the Bermuda Cricket Umpires Association to be named, and club officials Gary Fray, Noel Gibbons, Gladstone Brown, McNeil McGowan and Delby Borden.

The committee will hold its first meeting on November 24 when they will go over all of the recommendations and then return with those they propose to be worthy of implementing.

Once this procedure is concluded their proposals will then be put to the Board who will then in turn arrange a special meeting with the affiliates to have the adjusted list of conclusive recommendations ratified.

"It was a good meeting with the clubs. We are not disappointed in how things turned out because it was just a list of recommendations that the coach and the Board intended to put to the affiliates for consideration only,'' said El James, president of the Board.

"By no means was the coach or the Board trying to shove ideas down the throats of affiliates, they were just ideas that were drawn in the best interest of cricket and designed for serious consideration and debate by affiliates. The important thing about all of this is that we have to move forward and strive to make progress with everybody else in the world.''

On Saturday the affiliates were not able to get through the entire 13-page list of Recommendations for Development supplied by Harper, with most of the discussions surrounding the reduction of the Premier Division - called First Division in the document - to eight teams, including an Under-21 squad with the remaining teams forming a Second Division. The other main concern of the affiliates was the threat of losing key young players they were developing in their clubs to a prosposed Under-21 team, something they reckon would be detrimental to their own programmes.

With those topics alone primarily taking up most of the time allocated for the meeting the decision was made to form a committee to consider all of the recommendations and to return to the Board with any they felt were feasible to implement and progress from there.

"It's now up to the clubs to decide. We only made some recommendations put forward in the form of proposals by the coach, they are to discuss them and come back and present their own form of proposals to the general body,'' said James.

Meanwhile, the BCBC announced that the squad chosen for the Americas Regional Cricket Tournament in Argentina in March will begin training at CedarBridge on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.