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Trevor Bayliss is uncomplicated. What you see is what you receive.
He breathes and lives cricket and analyses each and every ball. Some would say he’s quiet, but it that he simply speaks when it’s necessary and, when he does, it’s well worth listening to.
His methods have been old school, and that is no bad thing. At international level, coaches can get a bit funky. That is not Trevor.
By way of instance, in a fielding drill, he maintaining low and attacking the ball. That is the kind of thing when you play the sport, you are educated, however Trev is about doing the basics.
He keeps things very, very straightforward and, when it comes to those fielding drills, I will not miss his yells of”Get down! Get up! Great throw!”
I didn’t know a lot about him when he was appointed besides Paul Farbrace, who would be Trev’s assistant and was subsequently in caretaker fee, stating he was a good bloke.
We went to Desert Springs in Spain on a training camp. On the airplane, he wasn’t giving much away, so me and Ben Stokes beginning speaking back to him at an Australian accent.
I believe he liked it that we had been giving some stick to him, and he awakened.
Later on precisely the trip, once we’d held a quiz night, Stokesy and me pulled a hint. We pretended to get a row which ended with Stokesy hammering me. Trev was looking around as though to say”what’s I inherited here?”
Stokesy and trev have gone on to create a relationship of mutual admiration. Although I believe Trev enjoys the manner Stokesy plays without taking a step, the accent has been maintained up by stokesy. “Keep your foot on the neck,” as Trev would state.
There is the perception that he does not do much. That couldn’t be farther from truth.
If people see him watching the game, they don’t think something’s being done by him, but he is actually taking it all in, prepared to provide opinions.
For those bowlers, he’ll understand if we’ve bowled the incorrect length, not made the batsmen perform given breadth, or .
During the World Cup final, in the end of this New Zealand innings, I was off the area because I had ripped my side.
We had been bowling a lot of balls and among them was struck . Trev was crying”how about a bloody yorker?”
Sometimes he’s just so disappointed that he can not bring himself to say anything , although there were instances once I thought he’d tear off a strip us.
The captain could address the group, then if he’s got something to say inquire Trev.
“No.”
“OK, Trev, so when are we training?”
“Dunno”.
Since he’s so annoyed with the way that we have played he will have his luggage packed and onto his back, needing to escape from there.
Later we dropped Scotland in the summer of 21, the only time that I’ve really seen him irate was.
He said he was embarrassed with how we’d played. Just about all the time with England, we’ll talk – we win as a team, we lose as a group.
On this event, he singled outside folks and informed them what they’re doing was not good enough if we needed to be the finest in the world.
There are different times when I will think we have played and he’ll bring us back down into the earth.
Again, it’s not through ranting and raving, but by laying out the facts.
We were observing in the room at Edgbaston after we won the World Cup semi-final against Australia.
Trev said:”That is why Australians believe the English can not win anything. You are celebrating winning the semi-final, however, actual winners win the final.”
It refocused our heads fast.
Then, after we won the closing, you can tell that he was thrilled, however, his reaction said so much about him as a person.
We had been doing a lap of Lord’s with the trophy, but Trev did not want to hold it. He kept saying”you’ve won it, not me”.
We had to beg him to choose this up, since we thought walk beyond it and that he was going to abandon it to the outfield.
That’s his way. He does not want the limelight.
He is, nevertheless, as strong as a bear. 1 time, at the dinner queue, we were on a tour of Australia and I tried to whip his shorts.
Next thing, he was pinning me down. “In case you ever do this again…” he explained. I learned my first lesson.
Particularly when he receives the sidearm thrower, he got a Aussie string in him.
I guess he can down it at above 90mph, and he really loves getting it back on players which have been winding him up. Even the tailenders are trembling till they must face Trev from the nets, and therefore they are good to him.
There have been instances when he’s clenched his fist and said to me”I would love to give you a whack”. That’s because I am one of the most popular ones in the room, but I and Trev have always had a strong connection and he has been very good.
I have left from this one-day group for your tour. Trev is quite approachable, and so I asked him what I needed to do to get my place back.
He said he wanted to watch”a dreadful series” in me. I was going on tour with the Lions, and also that I explained I had to prove to everyone that I was the best bowler on such trip, even though that meant bothering a few individuals in the nets.
It worked. I went away thinking”I will show you, Trev”. Next time I played with England, at a Test against West Indies, I took 5-41.
When you’re with a trainer for so long as we’ve been using Trev, you can develop close and become mates.
From an individual viewpoint, I could say that Trev has backed and trusted me when maybe others would not have, especially if I’ve struggled with accidents.
He is the trainer that led us. Each one the players may miss him. Trevor Bayliss is quite uncomplicated. What you see is exactly what you get.
BBC Sport’s Stephan Shemilt was being spoken to by mark Wood.
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