Dear Sir,

I for one strongly concur with Randy Robinson and Dennis Wainwright concerning the Janeiro Tucker saga that the Bermuda Cricket Board, along with coach Gus Logie, used Janerio and put aside hearing the player's appeal against the charges laid down against him before they left the Island for their tour.

I am more than surprised at the coach as Logie knows nowhere else in the cricket world would a coach ask the Board to put off a hearing so a player, or players, can represent their country.

The coach has always talked about players being disciplined, but neither he, nor the Board, showed any signs of being disciplinarians in the case of Janeiro, and if they are serious about the whole matter they would have dealt with it.

There is no other cricket nation who would have let this pass until the player returns from tour. Logie and the board must surely remember what Pakistan did to Shoaib Akhtar before their Test against India. His hearing was held and he paid the price for what he said, or did, and was left out of the squad and when his time was up he joined the squad.

It looks as if one player gets the white of the egg and the other gets the yolk.

I would like to give the Board, although I should say committee, a little history and I know some of them will remember just what I'm talking about when it comes to a player facing a hearing and being banned before a Test series. In the 1954-55 Test series for the Ashes, Fred Trueman was dropped from the England side due to his conduct, according to the selectors. He was their best bowler, and the fastest in the world, and in leaving him at home they knew their attack was weakened, but he had to pay the price for his actions.

After the 1957 series, England versus West Indies, their great batsman T.W. Graveney fell in the same boat as Trueman. His hearing was held and he was dropped before the series started.

In 1958-599 Roy Gilchrist played his last Test under Jerry Alexander, and got himself into a little trouble. His hearing was held just before the late Sir Frank Worrell was named as captain of the West Indies. Guess what? He was the fastest bowler in the West Indies and more experienced than Wes Hall, but he also had to pay the price for what he had done and said before the first Test. There was no waiting until the series had started or was over. He was dealt with when he was supposed to be dealt with.

Janeiro, I hope you will win your appeal, although I do not condone whatever you did, to show those who sit and make their own rules as if they are the Emperors of Rome.

Let's hope the people who are going to hear your appeal are not impious people. I know because I have had experiences, bad things happen to good people all the time, and for no reason at all.

George Bremar

P.S. I, along with a few others, strongly believe that two people are running the BCB. Who are they?