Trevor Bayliss ready to step aside as England T20I coach

Bayliss recently questioned the importance for T20 matches at the international level by saying that the shortest format of the game should be scrapped altogether and should only be played in the six months leading up to the T20 World Cup. The Australian made these comments after England crashed out of the T20 Tri-Series despite beating New Zealand in Hamilton on Sunday. On being asked if a coach specific to the T20 format should be appointed, Bayliss replied in affirmative and recommended assistant coach Paul Farbrace for the same. 

"The short answer is probably 'yes'. Eventually, you will have specialist coaches as well. That will obviously be a discussion with higher levels, with (ECB director of cricket) Andrew Strauss and people like that. If that was what they thought was the way to go ahead, I'd be all for it. If not, I am more than happy to keep going and work with these guys towards that next T20 World Cup," Bayliss said, reported Cricbuzz.

"Obviously, Paul Farbrace, I think, would do a grand job. If that's a possibility down the line, so be it. We work pretty closely together anyway. When I was a number two, years ago, a bloke said to me the role of the number two is to make the number one look good. I think he's done a good job in that respect."

Recently, Adil Rashid opted to give red-ball cricket a break to develop his skills in limited-overs formats and will now be available only to play in the Royal London One-Day Cup and the T20 Blast after having approached Director of Cricket Martyn Moxon to reveal his plans. Citing Rashid's example, Bayliss said that the excessive volume of cricket is invariably forcing players to choose between formats.

"It is a difficult one. The way we are heading you are almost forcing players to make a decision as Rashid did to go one way or the other. There is so much cricket. If you play every form of the game - we have a few guys who do that - there is no way you can play every game. Your career would be three or four years long and that would be it," Bayliss said.