Farbrace eyes Bayliss reunion for Hundred

WARWICKSHIRE’S new sport director Paul Farbrace would welcome reuniting with Trevor Bayliss when county cricket embarks on its 100-ball revolution next year. The two men have just finished a four-year stint in the England dressing room — where Farbrace was Bayliss’s assistant before taking the county job vacated by Ashley Giles, who recently replaced Andrew Strauss as England’s managing director. Farbrace worked under Bayliss with Sri Lanka and said teaming up with his old colleague would be ‘pretty straightforward’ once Bayliss’s England contract has run out after the Ashes series in September. Warwickshire have had informal talks with Bayliss about coaching the franchise that will play its home games at Edgbaston once the Hundred gets under way in 2020. ‘He’d definitely be someone we’d be keen to chat to,’ said Farbrace. ‘He’s got good experience of the IPL and Big Bash. You want someone who has ideas and experience of how to put the team together.’