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ST JOHNS, Antigua, Thursday, (Reuters) - West Indies cricket coaching techniques have become "outdated" and in need of help from overseas, a leading cricket official has said.

"It became apparent during the first intake of the Shell Cricket Academy of the St. George's University that our coaching techniques have become outdated," West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chief development officer Michael Seepersaud said.

Seepersaud said the board had hired two Australian coaches, Ashleigh Byron and Tim Coyle, to conduct a six-day workshop in March to change the West Indies coaching structure.

"The aim of the workshop is to obtain professional and technical input to the redesign of the WICB coaching programme," Seepersaud said on Wednesday.

"We are hoping that we can upgrade our coaching strategies so they can reach international standards."

Byron and Coyle will work with participants at the workshop to draft the outline of the WICB's Level I, II and III coaching curriculum and the contents of the WICB's coaching manual.

They will also design a coaching accreditation structure and develop a quality monitoring system as the West Indies strive to rediscover the glory days of the 1970s and 1980s when they were comfortably the leading test nation. They also won the World Cup in 1975 and 1979.

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