Trevor Bayliss has confirmed his first coaching commitment after his four-year stint with England ends in September, when IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad announced he would be their new coach.
Bayliss’s stock is extremely high after he oversaw England’s ODI revolution from the 2015 World Cup failure to their remarkable victory on Sunday. He hopes to pick up two or three freelance T20 gigs around the world, which will represent a stark contrast to the heavy workload of coaching England.
Three Indian Premier League franchises were interested in Bayliss’s services, but he has opted for Sunrisers, for whom Jonny Bairstow, David Warner and Kane Williamson play.
For that role, he is understood to have turned down approaches from Rajasthan Royals, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler’s team, and Kolkata Knight Riders, with whom he won the IPL in 2012 and 2014.
Bayliss was initially expected to be coach of Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, but that role has gone to fellow Australian Andrew McDonald, who won the Big Bash this year with Melbourne Renegades. Bayliss is likely to favour roles in the Hundred, BBL and IPL over other T20 leagues.
