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Dizzy backs Bayliss for England

Ex-Test pace ace confirms he is out of the running and renews focus on job with Strikers and Yorkshire

Jason Gillespie has confirmed he won't be England's next cricket coach with another Australian, NSW Blues and Sydney Sixers coach Trevor Bayliss, reportedly accepting the top job.

The England and Wales Cricket Board announced it was in "exclusive negotiations" with a preferred candidate, understood to be Bayliss.

Adelaide Strikers and Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie confirmed he wasn't in the running for the position any more.

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"I've spoken to Andrew Strauss (the ECB's director of cricket) and I'm not that preferred candidate," Gillespie told Sky Sports.

Asked if he was disappointed to be overlooked, Gillespie replied: "I think it would have been a good job to have – no question.

"There's exciting times ahead for English cricket and it would have been a great challenge but it's not to be.

"The job is a massive commitment and you are away from home a lot. I would have had to talk to my wife and family but I think if I did get offered it there would have been a chance I would have jumped at it.

"But it is something I would have had to consider and giving up the job with Yorkshire would have not been easy."

The 40-year-old insisted he had a "wonderful" job at Yorkshire and with the Strikers and he was looking forward to continuing in those roles.

Bayliss, 52, never represented Australia at international level so is less well-known abroad than Gillespie but has a fine coaching pedigree.

He guided NSW to two Sheffield Shield titles, won the KFC T20 Big Bash League's inaugural season with the Sixers, helped Sri Lanka to the 2011 World Cup final and won the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders.

He is also a former colleague of current England caretaker coach Paul Farbrace. The pair joined forces in Sri Lanka – both survived the 2009 terrorist attack on the team bus in Pakistan.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has worked under Bayliss in the Indian Premier League and believes he will be appreciated by the England players.

"He's a champion fella, very relaxed in the background and I'm sure he'll have a good relationship with Alastair Cook in Tests and Eoin Morgan in one-day cricket," said McCullum.

"I enjoyed playing with him and I'm sure the England guys will too. If he's in Leeds [for Friday's Headingley Test] I'll have a beer with him."

Australian spin king Shane Warne took to Twitter to give his backing to Bayliss.

Warne, who played against Bayliss, expects he'll be a "background sort of coach".

"He's done a wonderful job, on all the reports, with the teams he's coached, Warne said on Sky Sports.

"Everyone's a big fan of Trevor Bayliss. He's fair, he's harsh, and he creates a pretty good environment."

Former England captain Nasser Hussain suspects Strauss may have gone for Bayliss over Gillespie due to the former's experience coaching limited-overs cricket.

"He's obviously hugely experienced and also in one-day cricket, Hussain said.

"Jason Gillespie hasn't done a lot of one-day cricket … whereas Bayliss has done IPL.

"England need to look at their one-day cricket so maybe he just ticks more boxes."

Hussain argued England needed an "external view" considering their poor run of form in the shorter versions of the game.

He dismissed talk Bayliss might not be suitable simply because he didn't play international cricket himself.

"The key really is for him to get in that dressing room and start to know the players and get very close to the England captain Alastair Cook and the one-day captain Eoin Morgan."

Another former England captain, Michael Vaughan, said he would have gone with Gillespie.

"He (Bayliss ) has a good track record but it would be a big surprise," Vaughan told the BBC.

"You look at Jason Gillespie's pedigree – he's in our system and took Yorkshire to the title.

"He was a part of one of the greatest teams in Australia."