Former West Indies coach David Moore is being hotly tipped to replace Gus Logie as Bermuda's next head coach.

The Australian is believed to be a front runner for the vacant post, with a highly-placed source inside the Bermuda Cricket Board telling The Royal Gazette that Moore was top of the selection committee's short list.

According to that same source, the selection committee, headed by chairman Lloyd Fray and including BCB chief executive Neil Speight, is being heavily guided by ICC officials with High Performance Director Richard Done playing a prominent role.

Done is thought to be backing his fellow Australian for the job, although the BCB have so far been reluctant to discuss anything to do with the appointment of the new coach.

A former New South Wales cricketer, Moore steadily worked his way up through the ranks of Australia's highly-regarded coaching structure, becoming a senior coach at the national cricket academy in Adelaide in 2002.

He worked there under Bennet King until 2004 when King was appointed West Indies coach after the departure of Logie. Moore followed as assistant coach, and stayed in the role until King quit in 2007 following the team's poor performance at the World Cup.

Moore was then appointed as interim coach, but a poor showing during the side's tour of England raised doubts about his suitability to do the job full time, and he was eventually replaced by another Australian, John Dyson.

Meanwhile, another candidate linked with the Bermuda job, Eldine Baptiste, is believed to have withdrawn from the race. Originally interested in helping rebuild the Island's cricketing reputation, ICC insiders have revealed that Baptiste has instead opted to bid for the Kenya top-job.

A short plane ride from where he lives in South Africa, Baptiste is believed to favour staying where he is and coaching Kenya, rather than relocating to Bermuda.