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SSPORTPORT FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER 2017 21 IPL spend Defiant Bayliss says England need could hit $96m as wage cap to fight for longer periods of time rises 20% New Delhi Adelaide shown the capabilities we have AFP AFP got. We have just got to find a way to do it for longer,” he said. he Indian Premier ngland coach Trevor “In both Test matches we League, one of the Bayliss says his team have competed for a couple of Tworld’s richest sports left “a few scars” on days but to win against Australia competitions, will let teams Australia in the in Australia we have to compete splurge up to $12 m each on Adelaide Test, suggest- for longer than that. player salaries in 2018, an Eing the home side’s second “All of our players have com- increase of 20 percent. innings batting performance will peted at different times and After a meeting in New have some players feeling showed they can bat but we just Delhi on Wednesday, the IPL “nervous”. have to do it for longer.” governing council also said The fighting talk came after Bayliss clearly does not think teams will have to spend a England slumped to a crushing that any more practice is the key minimum of 75 percent of the 120-run defeat in the second for England’s batsmen and yes- salary cap each season. Ashes Test at Adelaide, leaving terday named only Moeen Ali The decision means the the tourists trailing 2-0 and on from the side that lost in Adelaide eight IPL teams are likely to the verge of losing the five-Test in an England XI to face a Cricket spend anywhere between series. Australia XI in a two-day tour Australia’s captain Steve Smith $72m and $96m on players Despite succumbing again, match in Perth. (right) shakes hands with England alone for just eight weeks of Bayliss was upbeat about his The rest of the team is made captain Joe Roor after the second cricket action in 2018. bowlers skittling Australia for up of the squad members who Ashes cricket Test in Adelaide. “Whatever changes we 138 in the second innings, leav- did not play in the second test have come up with are all in ing England with a chance of and six players from the England the interest of the players,” chasing down a record 354-run Lions team, who are training in IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla victory target. the city. to give his side a realistic shot at said. Australia head into the third But he is confident he can said. “We have got a few scars Captain Joe Root was also winning. Test with all-rounder Mitch contribute if selected, with mid- “We are also looking to there with the Australian team,” positive after the game, saying “If we can perform to our Marsh recalled to the squad, with dle-order batsman Peter increase the prize money for he told the BBC. England were “still massively” ability for longer periods of time the home side conscious of pro- Handscomb likely to be dropped the players in future.” “There will be a few who in the Ashes series. we’ll win games. The belief in tecting star fast bowlers Mitchell if Australia opt for Marsh. While most of India’s big have missed out and a few who This is despite England not dressing room is definitely Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat “As an allrounder in the Aus- name players are already will be nervous. beating Australia at Perth’s there.” Cummins with the series still tralian team with our attack I’m attached to franchises, sev- “They’ve got four good bowl- WACA Ground since 1978, where Bayliss said the team played alive and three Tests obviously not going to be bowl- eral players bagged lucrative ers and we’ve shown we can the third Test starts next week. well in final days of the Adelaide remaining. ing 30 to 40 overs a game,” he deals in the IPL auction in compete with them for a period “We’ve shown throughout day-night Test, but they needed Marsh, brother of Adelaide said. February. of time.” the two Tests in periods we can to make more than 220 runs in Test centurion Shaun Marsh, last “But I’ve worked hard over England all-rounder Ben Bayliss said his players just out-perform Australia, but just an innings to stand a chance in played a Test on Australia’s tour the last eight months to get my Stokes set a new record for a needed to figure out how to be not over five days,” said Root, Perth. of India in March and required body into a position where I’m foreigner by joining the Ris- competitive for longer periods. who scored 67 in the second “If we do that well we can a full shoulder reconstruction now playing again as an all- ing Pune Supergiants for more “I don’t think there is a real innings run chase but failed to put more pressure on Australia after an injury in the Bangalore rounder so that’s really than $2m. need to panic, the guys have stay at the crease long enough than we did on this match,” he Test. exciting.” England pace bowler Tymal Mills went to the Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1.8m, even though he had only played four Twenty20 ‘Circus’ fears as Stokes is internationals before that. India vs SL: Tired ‘rivalry’ The attractions of last-ball back in England ODI squad winning sixes, extravagant switch-hitting and rapid-fire Sydney centuries have made IPL a and the empty stands AFP favourite of the masses, espe- cially the younger uspended all-rounder Ben Stokes was included yesterday in generation. England’s squad for their one-day series against Australia, The IPL’s 60 games are New Delhi with coach Trevor Bayliss bracing for “a circus” if he is cleared valued at roughly $8.5m each, Indian team captain Virat S Reuters to play. not far off the estimated Kohli gestures during the Stokes is currently banned from international cricket while $9.6m per English Premier he humorous observation fifth day of third Test cricket British authorities probe his alleged involvement in a late-night League match -- and well that India and Sri Lanka’s match between India and fight outside a Bristol nightclub, and it remained in doubt whether over the $6.2m price tag Tcricketers see more of Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah he would play. attached to home internation- each other than their respective Kotla Cricket Stadium in New Batsman Alex Hales, who was caught up in the same fracas, als in India. partners appears to have taken Delhi on Wedesday. was also named in the 16-man squad for the five-game series, a more serious tone with the starting in Melbourne on January 14. Indian board accepting that an Selectors said in a statement they were advised to name their overdose of the one-sided strongest squad, and picked the pair accordingly. rivalry is bad for cricket. “Both Alex Hales and Ben Stokes are included, though their Three months after subject- involvement remains subject to any relevant legal or disciplinary ing hosts Sri Lanka to a 9-0 developments in relation to the incident in Bristol in September,” whitewash across all formats, they said. Bayliss admitted Stokes’ potential appearance in Aus- captain Virat Kohli’s men pre- tralia could be a distraction for the team. vailed 1-0 in the latest round of “Whenever he comes back that’s going to be a bit of a circus a duel between the neighbours for sure,” he told reporters after England lost the second Test in to seal their record-equalling Adelaide on Wednesday. “Whether it’s any more of a circus than ninth consecutive test series it’s already been, it’s hard to say. If it happens, let’s just get on with win. it and take it on the chin.” Three of those triumphs He added: “We’ve got to adjust to that at some stage.” have come against an unsettled New Zealand-born Stokes did not travel to Australia with the and inexperienced Sri Lankan rest of the squad for the Ashes Test series, and has missed the first side in the throes of a tricky two in Brisbane and Adelaide, with England losing both. transition period following the But speculation that he is preparing for a dramatic call-up was retirements of batting stalwarts fuelled by his decision to sign with New Zealand provincial side Since becoming Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Canterbury as their overseas player in late November. England Test captain, Joe Sangakkara in 2015. In his first limited overs match for his birth province against Root (pictured above) has India’s six other series wins Otago, he was bowled for two. He did better against Auckland on passed 50 in nine of his 16 in this period includes home tri- Wednesday, hitting 34 from 41 deliveries as he shakes off the rust. innings but has converted umphs against South Africa, Stokes could yet return mid-series to the Ashes if police decide just 2 into centuries - 190 New Zealand, England, Bangla- substantial basis of further dis- going throughout the year.” not to charge him. at Lord’s in his first knock desh and Australia, as well as a cussions on FTP.” India also played five one-day- In addition to Stokes and Hales, Kent batsman Sam Billings as captain and 136 against victory over West Indies in the Indian captains seldom talk ers in Sri Lanka this year, against and Durham seamer Mark Wood were added to the squad that West Indies at Edgbaston.

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