I found it really challenging to captain Australia: George Bailey

George Bailey has lashed out at the Australian cricket board for mishandling T20 cricket in the country. Bailey also believed that the way the Aussies have planned the T20 cricket tournaments in the country is the reason the dominant cricket side have been rather below par in World T20 tournaments. Bailey said that Australia’s revolving door of players in the T20 team and inconsistent approach to the format was part of the reason why he gave up the captaincy of the side almost two years ago.

“I found it as really a challenging format to captain just because the way it’s so fragmented in terms of very rarely having access to the best team,” Bailey told cricket.com.au in Guyana, where he’s part of Australia’s squad for the ODI tri-series in the West Indies.

Bailey captained the Australian T20 side on his T20I debut and has almost 37 different teammates in the T20 matches he has skippered.

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“You mainly get your team together for the (WT20) so you just get no continuity. It’s very hard to remember actually who was in your team for the last game. So in terms of leading the team, I found that quite challenging and quite frustrating.”

“Just looking ahead in terms of where we were at that stage (in 2014), there were four series until the next World T20,” Bailey said. “I didn’t think I was going to captain that side at the World T20, so it was an important time to be able to step back and let whoever was going to do it get a feel for it. And they ended up changing it anyway.”