No resolution has been reached in the Cup Match impasse between cricket umpires and Somerset and St. George?s.

Secretary of the Bermuda Cricket Umpires? Association (BCUA) Randy Butler last night said ?nothing has come through to us?, regarding any official word on whether the clubs had acceded to tea breaks during the two-day spectacle and to provide security for umpires and players.

However, Butler revealed that he was told by Somerset?s chairman of cricket Anthony Bailey that the two clubs had agreed to tea breaks.

?We need it in writing. We need to have exactly what they mean ? that they will have tea breaks on both days. We also need it in writing that security will be provided,? he stressed.

BCUA members announced last Friday that they would not stand in Cup Match nor last Saturday?s trials because the clubs refused to budge from not having a tea break between the five-and-a-half-hour final segment of either day of the classic which runs from 2 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. They also cited the dangers of umpiring and demanded security.

Association president George Francis called the denial of a 20-minute tea break a contravention of the Health Act, adding that umpires had been lobbying for years for a change to the Cup Match format.

Butler noted that BCUA were ready and willing to return to Cup Match duty once their requests were met and that Lester Harnett and Jeff Pitcher had already been selected to officiate in the game to be held at Wellington Oval on Thursday and Friday.