All of the witnesses who appeared before a committee investigating drug use during Bermuda national cricket team's ill-fated ICC Trophy tour of Malaysia said they believed marijuana was being smoked in one of the player's rooms.

But because neither team officials nor other players found any evidence of drugs or drug paraphernalia, the committee said they could not be satisfied that the four accused breached regulations.

Those findings are included in a full and detailed report, leaked to The Royal Gazette yesterday.

The report appears in full on Page 4.

It was submitted to Bermuda Cricket Board of Control earlier this month by a committee chaired by lawyer Michael Mello and including Clevelyn Crichlow and Police Supt. Campbell Simons.

They were instructed by the Board to investigate allegations of drug misuse by four ICC players -- Delano Hollis, Kevin Hurdle, Kameron Fox and Glen Smith-Blakeney -- on a tour which saw Bermuda eliminated at the preliminary stages.

The tournament was also riddled with controversy following a number of outbursts by Bermuda players which are now the subject of a separate disciplinary hearing.

Inquiry says drugs evidence insufficient According to the committee's report, the drug allegations centred around an incident at the team's hotel following Bermuda's defeat to Scotland.

Late in the evening four players were suspected of using marijuana when a strong smell, believed to have originated from the room of Hollis and Smith-Blakeney, "pervaded the hallway and elevator area''.

However, the players in the room strenuously denied any wrong-doing and insisted the smell came from burning incense.

A subsequent search of the room failed to turn up any drugs.

According to the committee's findings "all of the witnesses who were privy to the incident stated that it was their `belief' or `suspicion' or `feeling' that marijuana was being smoked during the early hours of the morning of March 30-31.

"However, none of the team's officials or other players who suspected drug misuse by the four accused, found any evidence whatsoever, whether of drugs or drug paraphernalia, to lead us to conclude that the four accused were misusing drugs.'' DRUGS DGS