From somewhere deep in New Zealand on England’s never-ending tour Trevor Bayliss has been musing about T20 cricket. Taken out of context his comments may seem to lack coherence. On one day he advocated that T20 internationals should be abolished except for a little window before and during the World T20 tournament, the next of which is scheduled for Australia in 2020. He said T20 cricket should be the territory of the various franchises around the globe.
A couple of days later Bayliss has suggested England might have a specialist T20 coach – he tosses out the name of his deputy, Paul Farbrace – a position which would have quite a gentle workload if the cricket world accepted his view that T20s at international level should go. In fact Bayliss’s idea of a different coach may just be a tacit recognition that his vision of the future of international T20 cricket will not be accepted by his employers.
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