Cricket Board of Control and its chairman, Ed Bailey, to resign. These calls are coming in the wake of the board's failure to drug test or search cricketers before they went on tour to Malaysia or on their return.

This is not to prejudge the inquiry which has been launched by the BCBC into alleged events in Malaysia. However, the failure to test is not in dispute and that alone indicates dereliction on the part of the BCBC. It is almost impossible to believe that in the wake of controversy over drugs in sport and after the "Miami Seven'' soccer arrests the BCBC would not have made testing a top priority. Anyone sensible would have tested the players but the BCBC did not do so and the board must now do the correct and the honourable thing and resign. We all know that the trips to exotic places are a great temptation but it would be folly to hang on to office without credibility.

The resignations would have the added benefit of clearing the air so that the inquiry can go on unfettered and allow for a new fresh board to take the hard look at cricket that has been taken at soccer.

The Premier who is a former Sports Minister has taken a strong stand against drugs, especially drugs in sport. The National Drugs Commission is publicly urging Bermudians to take a stand on drugs and not to sit by while drugs proliferate. Those are only two indications of a tough approach but neither seems to have influenced the BCBC which is supposed to be a responsible body.

We have to wonder if the BCBC failed to test because it already knew some answers and was reluctant to decimate the team.

Cup Match legend Bummy Symonds and former Cup Match player and cricket official St. Clair Tucker are now calling for resignations. Mr. Tucker has pointed out that the failure to test for drugs endangers the financial support cricket receives from the private business sector. No respectable company is going to give money to an organisation which is run so carelessly. The BCBC should have remembered that corporate money disappeared from soccer after the Miami Seven and has only returned after the reorganisation of soccer.

Mr. Tucker has called for reports on the tour by adviser and former Australian captain Bobby Simpson and coach Allan Douglas to be made public after they are seen by the current Sports Minister, David Dyer.

Mr. Tucker is quoted as saying, "The public should know what is going on....we should have a full inquiry into the whole episode.''