Tony King, a former long-standing board member is urging the men and women to see the game as the main priority.

Cricket is what is most important, the former Barbados team manager said. Officials have to look at the betterment of the game and forget about their egos and personal gratification.

King charged that for too long players and their development have been neglected and instead the central focus was on expanding structures and trying to impress people from overseas.

We need to work with the players from an early age and get then in the game.

What goes on in the board room should not dominate a meeting, we need to talk about the development of the game.

Officials will live and die, but the game will go on, said King, who served on the youth and grounds committees of the BCA.

He said that local cricket needs to move away from Kensington Oval if it is to be fully developed to move into the next millennium.

He suggested that Barbados desperately needs a cricket centre where the islands best players can be well prepared.

We need a new complex where we can develop the young talent, the former Empire and Barbados batsman said. This is something I have been saying for a long time now and no one is taking heed.

We have seen teams leaving the country underprepared and nobody seems to care.

We have to beg clubs to borrow their nets and this is not good enough. The time has come to change the system and treat the players well.

King, who was assistant manager of the West Indies team on the 1988 tour of Australia, said the new facility should be ultra-modern with indoor facilities, several practice wickets, concrete strips and even a hostel.