World Cup-winning head coach Trevor Bayliss is set for a return to English cricket with Lord’s-based Hundred team London Spirit.
Bayliss is understood to have been lined up to take over on an interim basis for the coming summer after the death of Shane Warne.
Warne was London Spirit’s men’s head coach for the inaugural edition of the Hundred last summer, but died aged 52 last month. He will receive the rare privilege of a state funeral at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this week.
The move will reunite Bayliss with Eoin Morgan, with whom he transformed England’s white-ball cricket between 2015 and 2019, culminating in the World Cup win. He has been appointed initially on an interim basis, and was not the only coach to hold conversations with the team about taking over.
The men’s Hundred draft has been delayed a week by Warne’s death, and will now take place on April 5. Spirit, who finished last in 2021, have first pick in the draft.
Bayliss, 59, left his role with England at the end of the summer of 2019, when the ODI team won the World Cup but could not win the Ashes back from Australia in a drawn series.
Since then, he has coached Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League and Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League.
He has been linked with the Australia head coach role vacated by Justin Langer after the Ashes, along with Andrew McDonald – who is the interim head coach and is also in charge of Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred.
