A few weeks ago he held a very successful open forum on Bermuda cricket, now it looks like BCB vice-president and technical committee chairman has done it again by securing the services of Bermuda's first ICC captain Gladstone (Sad) Brown to his committee. This is a 'master-stroke' by Richardson as Brown has one of the greatest 'cricketing brains' on the island. Not only does he keep abreast of what is happening on the international scene, he is second to none when it comes to knowledge of the domestic game. I have no doubt that he will make a positive contribution and his fellow committee members would be well-advised to carefully consider his input.

On another note I could not help but note the letter printed in last week Friday's sports mailbox by one Brownlow Adderley. Mr. Adderely provides plenty of 'food for thought' in his well reasoned treatise. In it he suggests that the BCB replace current national coach Gus Logie with former Australian captain Steve Waugh, establish a national cricket academy and get former West Indies coach Bennett King to run it and recruit former first class players to play as professionals with our club teams.

All of these ideas are revolutionary and I must confess the idea of establishing a national cricket academy and recruiting former first-class players to play as professionals in our domestic league does appeal to me.

While I believe the call to replace Logie at this point in time is somewhat premature I can understand where Mr. Adderely is coming from. Bermuda's dismal performances in the Stanford Twenty20, the World Cup, together with a string of poor results in the last few months have done little to inspire confidence in Logie's coaching abilities.

Certainly our West Indian brethren to the south appear to believe in the 'Aussie' way of doing things, having replaced former coach Bennett King with yet another Australian, John Dyson.

>Recman