#2 Justin Langer (Australia)
A left-handed batsman, Langer shared a successful partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's Test opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s. His career spanned from 1993 to 2007.
In 2012, he was appointed as the head coach of Western Australia and Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. He finally became the head coach of the Australia on May, 2018.
#3 Steve Rhodes (Bangladesh)
Steve Rhodes was an English wicket keeper batsman whose career spanned from 1989 to 1995. He did not have a glorious international career as he managed to play only 11 test matches and 9 ODIs.
On 7 June 2018 Bangladesh Cricket Board appointed Rhodes, head coach for the national team till the 2020 ICC World Twenty20. In the ODI series in 2018, Bangladesh defeated West Indies 2–1 to register their second ODI series victory in West Indies. Later, Bangladesh managed to beat West Indies in the T20I series with a 2–1 lead.
Recently, Bangladesh also won their first ever multi-nation tournament under their coach, Steve Rhodes.
#4 Trevor Bayliss (England)
Trevor Bayliss is an Australian former First Class cricketer who never played for the national side.
However, in terms of coaching, he enjoyed a wealthy career. He coached New South Wales from 2004 to 2007. Then he became the head coach of Sri Lanka from 2007 to 2011. He helped the Lankans in becoming the runners up in the 2011 World Cup.
From there he joined as the head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders from 2012 to 2014. In the span of just 3 years he helped the Knights in becoming the champions twice and thus proved his mettle.
Since 2015, he has been acting as the head coach of England and under his coaching the team is looking good and is the most favourite to win the competition.
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