A selection committee has been given the task of recruiting the best cricket talent available for the senior national programme.The five-man selection committee includes ex-national team players Clay Smith, Allan Douglas and Reggie Tucker Jr, national coach David Moore and chairman Derek Wright, who also serves on the BCB’s executive as an elected club representative.“We decided that we needed a selection committee just to reach out to all of the cricket fraternity to help the coach assemble the best available team, ” Wright told The Royal Gazette. “We are an official selection committee that has been ratified by the Board.”The former Flatts cricketer said one of the committee’s short- term objectives was to search for talent that may have gone unnoticed in the past as well as reaching out to those players who, for one reason or the other, have either been omitted from the national programme or simply neglected to represent their country.“We have to try and talk to any cricketers that feel disenfranchised to pull them in and let them know we want to start afresh and move cricket forward together,” Wright added. “We want to push to include other players and try and unify cricket.“The bottom line is the quality of cricket at the domestic level, which is transferred to the international level, cannot get any worse than it is.”Bermuda’s senior national squad are currently preparing for next March’s ICC World Twenty20 2012 global qualifiers in Dubai.Of the 25 players originally invited to train only a nucleus of eight to ten players have turned up consistently for practice.A number of players, such as promising youngsters Kamau Leverock and Terryn Fray are currently overseas, while there are others who are have made football their top priority at the moment.“I have no problems with them playing football as long as it doesn’t conflict with their cricket training,” Moore said. “But there will come a time when the players will have to stop football to concentrate solely on the cricket because six to eight weeks out (before Twenty20 global qualifiers) we will be getting down to the business end where we will be training three to four times per week, so those guys will have to come to the party.”Moore said those players who had not attended at least one training session prior to last night’s final practice session of the year risk being overlooked for selection.“If people haven’t turned up at least once by tonight (last night) then they have put themselves in grave jeopardy because there won’t be enough training sessions left for them to fulfil their training commitments,” he added.“Everyone is very clear on what’s required and I have met with some of those guys that haven’t been able to make it and they have said to me that they are committed, which I trust they will be. But if they don’t meet the guidelines then people are putting themselves in jeopardy because we can only take those people who want to play for Bermuda.“We can’t pick guys to play if they really do not want to play for Bermuda. Again everyone has a choice and if those guys choose to do that (not train) then they choose not to be in the team. But if they choose to train then they choose to make themselves available for selection.”