Trevor Bayliss has left his function at London Spirit within the Hundred after his males’s staff completed backside in 2024. Bayliss changed the late Shane Warne as males’s coach forward of the 2022 season, when Eoin Morgan captained them to the play-offs, however his staff have gained solely three video games and misplaced 11 within the final two years since Morgan’s retirement.
Bayliss’ aspect have been significantly poor in 2024, shedding seven of their eight matches with a scrappy three-wicket win over Welsh Fireplace the one exception. Their high picks on the draft, Shimron Hetmyer and Andre Russell, managed 216 runs between them, and Dan Lawrence was unable to get them out of a rut as captain.
The Spirit’s struggles within the males’s Hundred have been solely emphasised by the success of their girls’s staff, who gained the title for the primary time beneath Heather Knight and Ashley Noffke. Noffke has since signed an extension for the 2025 version, although has misplaced assistant Ali Maiden to Birmingham Phoenix.
“We would all wish to thank Trevor for his appreciable efforts throughout the final three seasons,” Fraser Stewart, London Spirit’s common supervisor and the MCC’s head of cricket, stated in an announcement. “He initially joined us in troublesome circumstances and led the aspect to a robust end in 2022, however the staff hasn’t been in a position to replicate that success since.
“As a bunch, we’re determined to see London Spirit competing on the proper finish of the desk and we expect a brand new strategy could also be of profit to our probabilities. Trevor leaves Lord’s with our greatest needs and our gratitude.”
Bayliss’ inventory has fallen as a coach of late, 5 years on from his England aspect’s triumph within the 2019 50-over World Cup. He was changed as Punjab Kings coach by Ricky Ponting earlier this 12 months, although has been retained as Sydney Thunder coach for the upcoming Huge Bash League season regardless of overseeing their last-placed end in 2023-24.
London Spirit have already marketed for Bayliss’ alternative, with a first-round deadline of December 11. James Foster and Paul Collingwood are each potential contenders, having hung out working beneath Bayliss as assistant coaches, and an appointment seems prone to happen earlier than the completion of the Hundred’s ongoing gross sales course of.
The second-round deadline for bids from personal buyers (for 49% stakes within the Hundred’s eight groups) is December 9, with London Spirit anticipated to draw the very best provides. bidders for the Spirit are understood to incorporate at the very least two IPL franchises in Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Tremendous Giants, in addition to the Manchester United co-owner Avram Glazer.
