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Trevor Bayliss accepts offer to become new head coach of England cricket Trevor Bayliss accepts offer to become new head coach of England cricket
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England have turned to an Australian in their search for a head coach but it is Trevor Bayliss, not Jason Gillespie, who is understood to have accepted the position. England are set to appoint an Australian as their new head coach but it is Trevor Bayliss, not Jason Gillespie, who is now understood to have accepted the position.
Just six weeks out from the first Ashes Test in Cardiff on 9 July, the director of cricket Andrew Strauss has turned to the New South Wales coach who was in the running for the job last year before Peter Moores was eventually appointed. Just six weeks out from the first Ashes Test in Cardiff on 8 July, director of England cricket Andrew Strauss has moved to recruit the New South Wales coach who was in the running for the job last year before Peter Moores was eventually appointed.
Moores was sacked this month and after Strauss failed to convince his former Middlesex team-mate Justin Langer to leave his role at Western Australia, the title-winning Yorkshire head coach Gillespie had become the frontrunner after meeting with Strauss twice last week. Since Moores was sacked this month, and after Strauss failed to convince his former Middlesex team-mate Justin Langer to leave his role at Western Australia, the title-winning Yorkshire head coach Gillespie had become the frontrunner and met with the England and Wales Cricket Board twice last week.
But despite positive talks, it has now emerged that Bayliss has agreed to take over with contact between the 52-year-old and the England and Wales Cricket Board having stepped up a gear over the weekend, and its offer is now understood to have been accepted. But despite positive feedback from those conversations, it has now emerged that his fellow countryman Bayliss has agreed to take over, with contact between the 52-year-old and the ECB having stepped up a gear over the weekend.
Bayliss was lukewarm to the board’s initial approaches but has been swayed by a package that would see the money he earns as coach of New South Wales and the Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders doubled, with reports in Australia claiming he could earn as much as £300,000 a year in the role. The board have solely confirmed they are in “exclusive negotiations” with their “preferred candidate”, with Bayliss now believed to be travelling to London from Sydney to finalise terms before the official announcement.
As well as the two jobs, Bayliss has been working as an adviser to the Australia coach Darren Lehmann, who he could now face in his first Test series in charge of England. His previous experience also includes leading Sri Lanka to the World Cup final in 2011 and Twenty20 titles the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League. Bayliss was initially lukewarm to the approach but has been swayed by a package that would see the money he earns as coach of New South Wales and the Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knightriders doubled, with reports in Australia claiming he could earn as much as £300,000 a year in the role.
The arrival of Bayliss will see him reunited with the current England caretaker coach Paul Farbrace, who is now expected to slot back into the role of assistant, the position he held under Moores. The pair worked together in the Sri Lanka set-up for two years before Farbrace left to become director of cricket at Kent in 2009. As well as those two jobs, Bayliss has been working as an advisor to Australian coach Darren Lehmann – even leading the Twenty20 side in their series with South Africa last November – with the pair now set to face off in his first Test series in charge of England.
The former batsman’s previous experience in white-ball cricket stacks up alongside Strauss’ target to compete for the 2019 World Cup on home soil following the disastrous campaign this year that saw them fail to make the knockout stages of the tournament.
Bayliss led Sri Lanka to the final of the competition in 2011, losing to India in Mumbai, but has since won the Indian Premier League twice with the Knightriders in 2012 and 2014, as well as the inaugural Big Bash League with Sydney Sixers in early 2012.
In first-class cricket he has overseen two victorious Sheffield Shield campaigns during two spells in charge of New South Wales, having played 58 first-class games for the state during a playing career that did not bring international recognition.
Bayliss has previously worked with England’s current caretaker coach Paul Farbrace too, with both men on the Sri Lankan team bus that came under fire during the 2009 terrorist attack in Lahore.
Farbrace, who left that assistant role in 2009 to take over at Kent before spells at Yorkshire and Sri Lanka, is now expected to be retained by Bayliss in the set-up and return to the No2 job he occupied under Moores.
The news is a huge boost for Yorkshire, with the club having been resigned to the fact that Gillespie, who led them to their first county championship title in 13 years last summer, would be moving on. Plans were already underway at Headingley for life after the 40-year-old but he will now continue, with his job set to be combined with a winter role at Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.