With local cricket plagued by continuing indiscipline, Bermuda Cricket Board are considering implementing tough new sanctions against clubs and players that continue to misbehave.

At the beginning of the season, the BCB set up a new get-tough policy with players facing automatic two-match bans if they stepped out of line.

But despite several players having been disciplined already this season, events of the past few days suggest those measures are not enough, and the Board's patience seems to have finally run out.

Officially the BCB have refused to comment on the abandoned games on Sunday at Devonshire Rec and Police Field, and the unsavoury incidents at Southampton Rangers, until they see the umpires' reports.

However, a BCB source indicated yesterday that Western Stars' Treadwell Gibbons jr, who allegedly smashed up Leg Trappers makeshift dressing room, is facing a ban running into several years.

Gibbons was suspended for two years in 2007 for a clash with BCB Director of Cricket Arnold Manders and his wife Robin. His reported actions on Sunday were preceded by the refusal of a Western Stars batsman, believed to be wicketkeeper Khriy Furbert, to walk having been given out. It's understood he too will be punished by the BCB.

Earlier this season, Cleveland batsman Allan Douglas refused to walk in a game against Rangers and was subsequently banned for two matches. This time the Board appear ready to make an example of the Stars batsman whose refusal to walk instigated a violent chain of events.

The source also said that Devonshire Rec were preparing to ban the two players, whose fighting led to the abandonment of their game against Willow Cuts, for the rest of the season, hoping this will be enough to spare them further punishment.

It's understood the BCB are considering awarding the points from the two abandoned games to Willow Cuts and Leg Trappers.

And with bans for individual players having failed to make a difference, similar incidents in the future may bring heftier penalties such as fines and the docking of points.

According to the BCB, this may be the only way to deal with the poor behaviour of clubs such as Southampton Rangers, who not for the first time in recent years brought the game into direpute during their match against Social Club on Sunday.

A group of players, including Bermuda national team players Malachi Jones and Janeiro Tucker (former player, intimidated umpires Richard Burrows and Kent Gibbons to such an extent that they changed a decision.

In the past the BCB have claimed they could not address the issues if the incident was not included in the umpires' report. This time, however, they may take a different approach and even if the incident isn't in the umpires' report, it's understood Rangers could be severly punished.

With the game in Bermuda threatening to descend into chaos, all the clubs will be summoned to an urgent meeting at the BCB where they will be told in no uncertain terms that matters have to change.

"This behaviour is unacceptable," said the BCB source. "Nowhere else in the world is this type of behaviour tolerated, or seen, as frequently as it is in Bermuda.

"We cannot continue like this, the clubs must start taking action."

Not that everyone in the BCB holds out much hope of that ever happening. Another member of the cricket board scoffed at the idea: "I look forward to the day that a club disciplines its own player and informs the BCB of its actions!"