"We will rise again. It won't be next year but certainly in a year or two," the West Indies Cricket Board president told BBC World Service.

An inexperienced side, led by Carl Hooper, has suffered terrible recent form, whitewashed in the recent Test series in Sri Lanka and currently in trouble in Sharjah.

A side without injured batsmen Brian Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan lost the first Test to Pakistan by 170 runs last week and on Friday was struggling in the second match of the series.

But experienced players such as Franklyn Rose and former captain Jimmy Adams have been over-looked in the last year.

And Hall believes that the tough grounding being given to the youngsters will stand them in good stead for the future.

"Sometimes in the past we've been able to bring one or two youngsters into the side but at the moment there are 10 of them," he said.

"There are some talented young men who have made runs at domestic level and now we're giving them a chance at international level.

"Some of them are still only 22 or 23 and in a few years, when they've matured, they will still only be 24 or 25, already have 40 Tests under their belts and go on to better things."

Hall described Australia as the best side in the world, but pointed out that their reliance on older players could be their downfall, as it was for the West Indies in the mid-1990s.

"All their players are over 30, and they play so long now that the guys in the second team will all be 28 by the time they get a chance to play.

"Maybe we've got a better thing going. It's rough at the moment but maybe we'll find we are better off."

Physique

Hall, part of one of the first pace quartets to terrify Test batsmen in the 1960s, identified the development of fast bowling as key to the West Indies revival.

The side depended on veterans Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh for several years but the retirement of the pair within eight months of each other began the recent decline.