What started out as a desire to close the gap between domestic and international cricket has grown into a series of All-Star matches and could become a full-blown league by next season.

The Bermuda Cricket Board's inaugural All-Star matches will see the best cricketers in Bermuda play each other over the course of the next two weekends in what it is hoped will be a new beginning for the game on the Island.

Four teams, all named after former greats of the game – Alma (Champ) Hunt, Calvin (Bummy) Symonds, Mackie Simmons and Clarence Parfitt – will play in two 50-overs matches tomorrow and Sunday, and then in four Twenty20 games the following weekend.

And the players involved are the ones who will ultimately be whitted down to form the team who will lead Bermuda's fightback to the higher echelons of Associate cricket.

Some of those names are missing, but most are players who are injured, like Stephen Outerbridge, or those away at university, like Terryn Fray. The rest have, as head coach David Moore has often stated, made their position on representing their country clear by their absence.

In that context, then, it is hard to see the international careers of Janeiro Tucker and Dwayne Leverock as anything but over, while the likes of Fiqre Crockwell and OJ Pitcher, who will captain the Hunt XI and Simmons XI respectively, are the future.

"It is important that these players realise that each and every one of them are now on the radar for National commitment and the opportunity to show their wares is vital for future selection," said Moore. "The selection of captains and vice-captains reflects the next generation of Bermuda's future leaders in cricket."

As well as the usual suspects, there are some new faces too, and the likes of Cleveland fast bowler Damali Bell, and Devonshire Rec's Steven Bremar Jr, will have the chance to prove themselves against a better standard of opponent than they might normally face.

This weekend though is just the start. Next year the plan is to create an elite league, a tier between the Premier Division and International cricket.

"With the support of the BCB, players, coaches, administrators and potential sponsors, I hope that this series will be the forerunner to an elite players' league that will commence in the 2011 season," said Moore. "The envisioned All-Star League will pit the best of the best against each other week in, week out."

Hunt XI: Fiqre Crockwell (PHC) (capt), Malachi Jones (WC) (v-capt), Dennico Hollis (BB), Reid Jones (Somerset), Andrew Raynor (Rangers), Shannon Rayner (Rangers), Marcus Johnson (Somerset), Christian Burgess (St.G) (WK), Kyle Hodsoll (BB), Ryan Steede (St.G), Burton Outerbridge (BB). Coach: Clay Smith

Symonds XI: Delyone Borden (St. David's) (Capt), Jordan DeSilva (Somerset) (v-capt), Sam Robinson (St. David's), Dean Stephens (PHC), Irving Romaine (BB), Dion Stovell (Rangers), Steven Bremar Jr (DR), Kevin Hurdle (WS), Khiry Furbert (WS) (WK), Kamel Easton (Somerset), Dennis Musson Jr (Cleveland), Lateef Trott (BB). Coach: Clevie Wade.

Simmons XI: OJ Pitcher (St. David's) (Capt), Joshua Gilbert (Somerset) (v-capt), Chris Douglas (WC), Makai Young (Cleveland), Regino Smith (Flatts) (WK), Sheroy Fubler (WC), Justin Pitcher (St. David's), Jim West (BB), Kevon Fubler (WC), Allan Douglas Jr (Cleveland), Damali Bell (Cleveland). Coach: Andre Manders

Parfitt XI: Rodney Trott (YMSC) (Capt), Chris Foggo (DR) (v-capt), Jason Anderson (PHC) (WK), Kamau Leverock (PHC), Lionel Cann (St. David's), David Lovell (BB),

Staphen Dill (Rangers), Kwasi James (Somerset), Rudell Pitcher (St.G), Kevin Tucker (PHC), Tre Manders (WS). Coach: Herbie Bascome.