England batting failures frustrate coach Bayliss
LONDON:Trevor Bayliss is becoming ever more annoyed by the kind of England batting collapses which led to their “embarrassing” nine-wicket defeat by Pakistan in the first Test at Lord’s. Bayliss, who became England coach before the start of the team’s home 2015 Ashes success, has been known to encourage attacking batting as he has improved the team’s fortunes in the limited-overs game.
But he insisted the Test top-order must be prepared to graft for their runs if conditions and the quality of the opposition attack require an initially more cautious approach. England were skittled out for just 184 in their first innings at Lord’s by disciplined bowling from Pakistan, whose resolute batsmen then made 363 in reply.
Bayliss’s side have lost six of their last eight Tests, ahead of the finale of a two-match series against Pakistan at Headingley starting on Friday.
Asked if his words were getting through to the players, Bayliss replied: “Well, obviously not enough. In a way, you almost throw your hands up sometimes. But what else can you do? We continually deliver that type of message and are continually working on it in the nets.”
“It’s going to be difficult early -- you’ve got to work hard early and earn the right to bat long, you’ve got to bat in partnerships.”
“The mistakes we made throwing hands at the ball...(not) letting the ball come -- under pressure, in the middle, we’ve got to do it better.”