Those national cricket players who refused to travel to Argentina for the recent Americas Cup should feel the brunt of any criticism about the team's performance, tour manager Tom Wainwright has declared.

Bermuda won one and lost three matches in Buenos Aires finishing fourth in the six team tournament. They secured a victory over the Bahamas, lost heavily to Canada and the Caymans and suffered a dramatic last ball loss to the USA. The match against Argentina was cancelled due to bad weather.

Bermuda's squad was peppered with youngsters as several experienced players decided not to travel. Those included Clay Smith, Albert Steede and Jermaine Postlethwaite, while Janeiro Tucker was dropped and Glenn Blakeney not considered.

Though unable to elaborate on his feeling about the Tour until he submits his report to the board's executives, Wainwight did, however, pay tribute to the younger squad members.

"I was awfully proud of the youngsters that did go," he said, heaping praise on the likes of O.J Pitcher, Stephen Outerbridge, Jacobi Robinson, Jekon Edness and Chris Foggo before setting his sights on those who remained at home.

"They are the ones that should feel ashamed because these youngsters did their best. And these are the guys that we are now going to build around for the future.

"Those five players were all members of Bermuda's under-19 squad and, to me, they all did what they had to do under certain conditions."

Wainwright also said the pitches in Argentina, saturated by heavy rain during the tournament, left a lot to be desired.

"They were the main fault," he said. "We had never played on anything like that before. The texture of the clay was like pond mud."

Ground staff at the San Albano worked until the last minute before Bermuda squared off against the US.

"They dug a hole in the outfield, took a squeegee and squeezed the water into the hole and then took buckets and scooped the water out from there," he said.