Outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss insists England are working on their Test-match batting – but need assistance from pitches in cricket.
England have thrived under Bayliss in the arena that was white-ball, culminating at Lord’s in July when a victory inspired over New Zealand.
However they have stuttered in Test cricket and have been skittled for 85 and 67 from Ireland and Australia respectively.
Ahead of the final match as coach, Bayliss – whose side will soon be looking to make a 2-2 series draw with Australia – told Sky Sports’ Rob Key:”I do not think there’s any doubt that the style of players we’ve obtained is appropriate to the one-day game.
“A number of the techniques have been affected from the one-day game but they are all very talented batters. They are all currently working.
“All the things I hear people speaking about – tender hands, playing afterwards under your eyes – have been worked and talked about ever since I have been here and likely before.
“If we can play on flatter wickets it gives batters the opportunity to bat for longer in these states and place those techniques in to play in a game situation.
“It is all good and well doing it at the nets but under stress out in the center a lot of days you revert into what is natural.
“In one single series you perhaps want green grass so it goes more for your whole innings, but in the very long term the very best thing to do is perform these wickets as much as we possibly can at the level below so that we could bat more and get more constant performances.
“Concentrate for longer in the area, focus for longer when you’re bat. Spinners will come more in the game and the speed bowlers will learn to correct when there is no hardness or shine on the ball.”
Bayliss coached England into an Ashes success in his first series in charge in 2015, plus noteworthy Test series falls in South Africa and Sri Lanka, but says that the World Cup name”has been the cherry on the top”.
England in a championship that was worldwide, the triumph, capped a four-year period where they moved from being chucked to No 1 in the positions from their previous World Cup in the group point.
“In the one-day match we chose the reins away [the players] and said’go outside and say yourself, see just how good you can be’, knowing full well they were going to drop over and have bad matches,” said Bayliss, who formed a thriving axis together with captain Eoin Morgan.
“You know from the mistakes you make and I’d like to consider, over a time period, that when they were knocked over gradually they began to work it out. The proof was not just the World Cup win but the manner in which we did this.
“We have played on very flat wickets for the previous four years but we have into some World Cup final on wickets with a little inside them. We were able to adapt, and that’s exactly what we had been about the whole time. We researched the ceiling and then, through experience, pulled it when we had to.
“We went through a period in the middle of this World Cup at which it didn’t go as we needed but we stuck to our guns and as soon as the heat was on – having to win four in a row against four of the better teams at the competition – we had the ability to perform it.
“This was the cherry on the top. To see the delight on the players’ faces, the other trainers’ and direction, along with also the cricket fans generally. It is something I will not forget for a long time.”
Bayliss also spoke about why he gets on so well with Stokes, a month whose nice summer comprised a unbeaten 135 at the third Ashes Test.
“He had a confidence ,” added Bayliss.
“He obviously had a lot of ability but the way he went about his clinic, you only knew he wasn’t going to take a backward step in any kind of contest, whether batting, bowling or in the field.
“He wasn’t scared to express his perspectives, at times when he believed I was wrong.”
On Stokes missing a huge chunk of cricket after the Bristol episode in September 2017, for example the prior off Ashes show, Bayliss included:”I attempted to maintain a pretty philosophical view on it, strove to dread as little as possible.
“From it, I think we have seen Ben, along with a lot of the other guys, mature and grow as human beings. They are good people and that’s exactly what you need to see.”
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