Nearly three weeks has passed and a meeting between a "deeply concerned" Premier Ewart Brown and former national team cricketer Saleem Mukuddem has yet to be held.

In the aftermath of Mukuddem's scathing attack on Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) last month, a meeting had been arranged for Premier Brown to sit down with the ex-pat cricketer - who played an integral role in Bermuda's successful 2007 World Cup qualification - at Government House to discuss numerous allegations included in his criticism over the manner in which the Board presently conducts its affairs.

It was a courtesy that was extended to BCB president Reggie Pearman amid public outcry over the Island's dismal performance at the Stanford 20/20 Tournament in Antigua last month.

"The meeting was scheduled for February 25 at 9 a.m. at Government House," Mukuddem confirmed yesterday. "It was scheduled on February 20. I received a call in the morning and then again in the afternoon when he called to confirm the meeting particulars."

However, after The Royal Gazette ran the story about the scheduled meeting on February 21 the meeting between the two parties was called off.

"I received a call on February 21 from the advising that because of the article appearing in the RG (The Royal Gazette) that day the scheduled meeting will not take place," Mukuddem said.

Repeated attempts to receive confirmation on whether or not the meeting will go ahead as originally planned have proved fruitless with the Premier's press secretary Glenn Jones stating: "There's still no plan for the Premier to meet with Saleem Mukuddem.

"No meeting with Saleem Mukuddem is currently planned. No meeting with Saleem Mukuddem has happened."

Jones then referred further questions to Sports Minister and past BCB president El James who has declined to comment on the matter with this newspaper.

In his attack on the BCB South African-born Mukuddem accused local cricket's governing body of "failing badly" in their role as custodians of local cricket and insisted that "unless a new system, structure and mindset are adopted Bermuda will continue to fall over the same hurdles every time".

Premier Brown met with BCB president Pearman on short notice following the Island's poor performance at the Stanford 20/20 Tournament in Antigua where they were skittled out for a new tournament-low 67. But to date the details of that meeting have yet to be made public, with Premier Brown only prepared to divulge, "We take the investment of taxpayers dollars very seriously".

"The Government believes the development of sports is a nationally important endeavour - especially for young people - and we want to ensure that the BCB is as focused on that goal as we are," he said, in a written press release.

Mukuddem, who previously served as a technical committee member at the BCB, went as far as to call for major overhaul at Board headquarters, telling The Royal Gazette: "Crucially there must be critical and widespread changes at the BCB who are failing badly in their role as custodians of cricket.

"From my experience the BCB made and continues to make poor decisions, accountability to the stakeholders appears not to be a priority, they're not transparent in their dealings.

"Communication is a major area of concern as it's usually done in response to something and executed half baked."

BCB CEO Neil Speight countered by dismissing the so-called 'cricket crisis' as "complete rubbish".