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England Coach Bayliss Recommends Scrapping T20 Internationals

Trevor Bayliss suggested only playing T20 internationals ahead of World Cups.GETTY IMAGES

England cricket head coach Trevor Bayliss called for T20 internationals to be "virtually scrapped" after his team failed to qualify for the tri-series final against Australia on Wednesday, even though England beat New Zealand in its last qualifying game by two runs, according to Scyld Berry of the London TELEGRAPH. Bayliss said, "I wouldn't play T20 internationals. If you want to play a World Cup every four years or whatever it is, maybe six months before you get the international teams and let them play some T20 internationals. (Otherwise) I'd just let the franchises play." He went on to attribute Australia's "supremacy in this tournament" -- it won all four of its qualifiers, with England and New Zealand winning one each -- to the fact that most of its players had been playing in its domestic Big Bash League, saying, "I think it's quite obvious their players have just come out of two months of T20 cricket. Both NZ and Eng have been playing other forms of the game" (TELEGRAPH, 2/18). In London, Steve James reported Bayliss said that England "may need a specialist Twenty20 coach" if it continues to organize "more and more T20 internationals." He said, "I think it's definitely the way it's heading. If we continue putting on so many games there'll be a certain amount of blowout, not just players but coaches as well." Bayliss has been with the England team since it began preparations for the Ashes in late October. By the end of that, Bayliss "will have been the only person -- player, coach or management -- to be present for all the winter" (SUNDAY TIMES, 2/18).

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