National cricket coach David Moore says Bermuda cricket will not move forward until the Island’s top players adopt a different mindset.The Bermuda Cricket Board confirmed last week that Moore will leave the Island early next year after deciding not to renew his three year contract which expires next March.One of his final tasks will be to prepare the national team for the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 3 Tournament which Bermuda are hosting next April-May. He will have departed by then as Arnold Manders takes over on an interim basis until the end of the tournament.Moore has expressed his disappointment at the low turnout to training sessions as he sought to begin early preparation for next year’s tournament. At least a half-dozen players have made playing football their immediate priority, but the coach has stressed the need for players to commit fully to the national programme if Bermuda’s cricket is to improve internationally.“From my point of view one of the biggest things I’ve wanted to do since I’ve been here is to implement a high performance cricket culture,” he stated. “A high performance cricketer has to lift himself above the normal expectations and work harder so they can play international cricket because it is not an easy game. I think I got through to many of the players but still some of the players still don’t embrace the international cricket culture and until we embrace that we will continue getting the results we’ve been getting.”Asked to grade himself, Moore said it was for other people to judge his work here but insists he has been “fully committed and very passionate about Bermuda cricket”.“I’ve been to every training session and planned every session except if I’ve been ill so I don’t think anyone can doubt my commitment and passion for Bermuda cricket in trying to move them forward,” he stated.“One of the biggest accomplishments that have been achieved since I’ve been here is the reformation of the Bermuda Cricket Board National Academy and the fact that we’ve got that up and running and now actually providing quality programmes for the youth, not just in cricket but personal and character development. That, hopefully, will prepare young cricketers who are desperate to play for Bermuda.”Last Summer the BCB took two National Academy teams on a tour of the UK and Moore hailed it a success and suggested future tours should be organised on at least a biennial basis. Some of those players will form the basis of the national squad in the coming years.“If you go through every level of cricket in Bermuda and you look at our National Academy squad there are quality cricketers at each level, under 19s, under 15s and under 13s,” said Moore. “But we still need to work on a league where the top 36 to 48 players play against each other and that’s one of the things I’ve been disappointed in, that we didn’t get the support for the Elite Players League or Bermuda Players League because the gulf between our club cricket and international cricket is massive.“If we don’t get that league up and running and the players don’t support it then we’ll continue to get the inconsistent results that we’ve been getting. We’ve effectively beaten everyone who we should have beaten, but we’ve never actually beaten anyone who is ahead of us in ranking.”He added: “In the Division 2 tournament we should have beaten the UAE and Papua New Guinea. We get ourselves in winning positions and didn’t close the deal and that will only come once we start playing better quality domestic cricket, but also when the players take on the elite cricket culture.“Elite cricketers in other countries don’t forego cricket practice for football training. Elite cricketers in the better Associate countries do not put club football before international cricket. That, to me, is going to be the key to moving forward in Division 3 and then hopefully moving up to Division 2.”Moore will begin looking for coaching opportunities closer to his native Australia when he leaves Bermuda at the end of his three-year contract next March.Moore stated that family reasons was the reason behind his decision and that he would be returning to his family home south of Sydney.“I would like to consider a country in the southern hemisphere rather than the northern hemisphere, the only problem is in the southern hemisphere there are only three cricket nations, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa and South Africa is too far away,” said Moore who may also seek a career outside of coaching.“I’ve got my education degree and having worked at a university for about 15 years I can always go back and teach at a university. Coaching in Australia is difficult because there are only a small number of jobs available, so once you are out of the system, sometimes it is difficult to get back in.”Moore replaced Gus Logic as national coach in 2010 and previously worked at the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Adelaide in 2002 with Bennett King before working with King again as coach of the West Indies and then taking over as head coach after King resigned following the 2007 World Cup.“I’d like to still work in cricket and one of the things for me is the opportunities afforded to me by the Bermuda Cricket Board which has allowed me to develop administrative skills that I could transfer to an administrative job in sport as opposed to an out and out coaching job,” said Moore.“Now that there is a finish date on my time in Bermuda, I’ll start looking around and I would suggest that my experience in Bermuda will hold me in very good future for future employment.”