New coach Bayliss asks for youthful England squad in limited-overs series

By Ali Martin/The GuardianThe incoming England head coach, Trevor Bayliss, has given his first input into selection by requesting a youthful squad is named for the limited-overs series against New Zealand, with a strong emphasis placed on fielding prowess.While the interim coach, Paul Farbrace, will continue to run the first team until the arrival of Bayliss at the end of next month, the pair have discussed plans for the white-ball sides before the five one-day internationals and Twenty20 match that follow the Tests, starting at Edgbaston on 9 June.The message has been passed on to the national selector, James Whitaker, and his panel of Mick Newell and Angus Fraser, before the squad is named on Tuesday, that Bayliss demands athleticism from his teams. “He loves fielding,” Farbrace told the BBC’s Test Match Special. “A lot of his teams are built around being brilliant fielding teams.”The England director of cricket, Andrew Strauss, who is involved in the selection discussions, has been set the target of ensuring England challenge for the 2017 Champions Trophy and the 2019 World Cup – both of which are on home soil. With no retirements coming after the failed World Cup campaign last winter, some tough calls will need to be made.The one-day futures of Ian Bell, Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad are being debated, although the Ashes series that starts on 8 July in Cardiff, and the preparation required in advance, provides Whitaker with the perfect softener should they deem them surplus to requirements.Unlike the previous two home Ashes series, no warm-up match between England and a county side has been scheduled before the first Test with Australia and those players could be eased out of the one-day side under the premise that, after a rest, playing in the County Championship would be more beneficial to them this summer.The Test players Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes, who all missed the one-day international against Ireland at the start of the month, will be included, although there are suggestions they could drop out after the first three games to provide them with adequate downtime. Eoin Morgan returns as captain after missing that game in Dublin due to a clash with his Indian Premier League commitments.England, meanwhile, are poised to issue the fixtures for their winter series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates with the caveat that the tour, due to start in October, is still subject to the International Cricket Council receiving a full explanation from the broadcaster Ten Sports over its involvement in plans to set up an unsanctioned “rebel” cricket tournament.Ten Sports, which holds the rights to show “home” internationals played by Pakistan, is a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Essel who ran the defunct Indian Cricket League until 2009 and is working on the creation of a new cricket project, with an employee of the channel shown to be behind the registration of website domains linked to it. The England and Wales Cricket Board president, Giles Clarke, who represents England at ICC level, is concerned that Ten Sports, who hold the rights for four other Test-playing countries, is allowed to continue as a broadcaster while its parent company works on an unofficial breakaway league and may yet push for the tour’s cancellation.