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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 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. | 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 before the first Ashes Test, in Cardiff on 8 July, the 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. | |
| 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. | 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 feedback from those conversations, it has now emerged that Bayliss has agreed to take over, with contact between the 52-year-old and the ECB having stepped up a gear over the weekend. The board has solely confirmed it is in “exclusive negotiations” with its “preferred candidate”, with Bayliss now believed to be travelling to London from Sydney to finalise terms before the official announcement. | But despite positive feedback from those conversations, it has now emerged that Bayliss has agreed to take over, with contact between the 52-year-old and the ECB having stepped up a gear over the weekend. The board has solely confirmed it is in “exclusive negotiations” with its “preferred candidate”, with Bayliss now believed to be travelling to London from Sydney to finalise terms before the official announcement. |
| Bayliss was initially lukewarm to the approach but has been swayed by a package that would see him double the money he earns as the coach of New South Wales and the Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders, with reports in Australia claiming he could earn as much as £300,000 a year. | |
| As well as those two jobs, Bayliss has been working as an adviser to the Australia 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. | As well as those two jobs, Bayliss has been working as an adviser to the Australia 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 one-day cricket stacks up alongside Strauss’s 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. | |
| 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 Knight Riders in 2012 and 2014, as well as the inaugural Big Bash League with the Sydney Sixers in 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. | 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 Lanka team bus that came under fire during the 2009 terrorist attack in Lahore. | Bayliss has previously worked with England’s current caretaker coach Paul Farbrace too, with both men on the Sri Lanka 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 and return to the No2 job he occupied under Moores. | 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 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 under way at Headingley for life without 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. |