• Failure in Ashes has put Yorkshireman’s position in question• Bayliss in charge of
England for the final time in fifth TestIt was very much in keeping with his slightly incurious nature that Trevor Bayliss, in his final press conference as England head coach, had no idea the man who hired him five years ago had been knighted in the previous evening’s honours list.
Andrew Strauss, now Sir Andrew Strauss, recruited Bayliss back in 2015 off the back of a trophy-laden record in limited-overs cricket but also because of his reputation as an old-school Aussie who would relax the players after the more intense regimes of Andy Flower and Peter Moores.