Legendary cricketer Calvin (Bummy) Symonds has urged affiliates to call a special meeting to address claims that Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) is being run like a ?dictatorship?.

Perturbed over the manner in which business is being conducted by local cricket?s governing body, Symonds told : ?We?ve got to have a meeting because something is not right here. Somebody?s got to be held accountable and these concerns need to be addressed.

?I?m not happy at all with the way the Board is going about things. I don?t want to take anything away from (president) Reggie (Pearman) but I can?t help but ask who is exactly running that administration up there? It appears to me that only one individual is calling all the shots.

?When affiliates send people to represent them on the Board, they send people who don?t know anything about cricket. They just go up there and sleep and allow this dictatorship to go along. And my problem is that things have been this way for years, people sitting on the Board to relax.?

Sources have told that affiliates have been meeting behind closed doors, reportedly unhappy with the role being played by chief executive Neil Speight, one of the BCB?s three full-time paid employees.

Former St.George?s Cup Match skipper Symonds said there were many resourceful individuals in the community whose services and experience could be an asset. But, for unknown reasons, he claimed, they have been ?discouraged? from giving back to the sport.

?I think the Board is made up wrong and our best possible brains should be the ones running cricket today. And there are a lot of resourceful individuals out there but they have become disillusioned and have walked away,? Symonds added.

Former Willow Cuts and Somerset Cup Match fast bowler George (Friday) Breamer concurred.

?There are so many influential individuals in the community who can help take our cricket to a higher level, but for whatever reasons they are being excluded,? said Breamer. ?But the Board is not being run properly and affiliates are being dictated to.

?This would have never happened during Alma (Champ) Hunt?s era . . . nobody dictated to anybody during those days. And it seems as though one individual is running the show and this is not the way to go.

?This is a one-person show and I think the affiliates need to get more involved if we are to take our cricket seriously and move it forward. We really need to sit down and work this thing out because it has definitely got out of hand.?

Former Board executive Rudolph Lawrence was another to express concern on how the BCB?s affairs were being handled.

Lawrence served on president Ed Bailey?s administration.

The retired prison warden said: ?From what I gather there?s only one executive running local cricket and I don?t understand how a president can sit by and accept this. It seems as though there?s an inner core making all the decisions.

?So I think what we have here is a dictatorship and the sad part is that members and affiliates of the Board are just sitting by and allowing cricket to fall by the wayside. These people don?t even talk cricket and certainly don?t attend cricket games.

?How can you run a Board having only one meeting per year? During my time meetings were held every other week, and this was during off-season. Then during the regular season meetings were held every week because there was always lots of business to attend to.

?We also had semi-annual and annual meetings which were always well attended. Members would challenge you if they didn?t feel something wasn?t right, and everyone shared ideas and opinions. But nowadays you don?t here of nothing and I often ask myself what is going on here because from an administrative side things have fallen by the wayside at the Board.?

Former Somerset Cup Match all-rounder Winton (Timmy) Edwards added: ?As far as I?m concerned I don?t think cricket is being run accordingly at the Board.

?I think we should have more senior people who understand and have played the game before up there on the Board. It seems to me as though those who have much to offer our cricket have been left out in the dark.?