Jos Buttler leads the calls for Eoin Morgan to stay on as England captain after Cricket World Cup win

England want Eoin Morgan to continue as captain and lead the team at next year’s World Twenty20 tournament in Australia.

Morgan is set to hold talks about his future with Ashley Giles, the England team director, and the board want him to stay on as captain. He left his future in doubt when he declining to commit to the job in the moments after winning the World Cup on Sunday evening.

The World Twenty20 will be held in Australia next October and England will be among the fancied teams. They reached the final of the last tournament in India in 2016 where they fell agonisingly short against West Indies and Morgan will fancy taking them one better.

The pitches in Australian will be good for batting, suiting their explosive ball strikers who were nullified by the slow surfaces in this World Cup. Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow are among the world’s best Twenty20 batsmen while Jofra Archer is one of the most highly rated bowlers in the format.

Aged 32 now, Morgan will not be around to lead England’s defence of the World Cup in India in 2023 so handing over the captaincy to his deputy, Buttler, after next year’s World Twenty20 would make sense.

Morgan could announce his retirement from 50-over cricket with England not due to play the format again until the tour to South Africa in January. Retiring from 50-over cricket would allow Buttler to take over the leadership of that side and free Morgan to concentrate on the World Twenty20 campaign.

Buttler is the automatic choice to replace him as captain. He showed his leadership qualities by staying cool under pressure in the final on Sunday firstly leading the run chase with Ben Stokes, then batting in the Super Over before completing the run out of Martin Guptill that won the World Cup.

“There is plenty of life in him yet,” said Buttler about Morgan. “I hope (he carries on). He has done an incredible job. He is the best captain we’ve ever had and all of us love playing under him. We are all very hopeful. There is no reason to stop, is there?”

Trevor Bayliss will stand down as England coach in September after the Ashes. It is the end of his four year contract with the England & Wales Cricket Board and he believes it is time for a new coach to take over.

He will not be short of offers. Telegraph Sport understands Kolkata Knight Riders are preparing to offer him a deal in the IPL. He twice led Kolkata to the IPL title in and last week they announced that Jacques Kallis had stood down as coach.

Bayliss joined Buttler in encouraging Morgan to stay on. England’s World Twenty20 starts with a game against an as yet undecided qualifier in Perth on Oct 26 next year. “He has been at the forefront. There have been a lot of people involved Andrew Strauss in the early days but Morgs is he leader of not just the guys in the team but he is the leader off the field as well. He is the one who has really driven this going forward,” said Bayliss.

“I think the rest of the boys try and run through a brick wall for him and the effort that Stokes put in yesterday was just an example of that. You’d have to ask him (about his future).  There is a T20 World Cup coming up in 12 months which I am sure he will be more than up for. That will be an individual decision for him.”

Morgan was padded up and ready to go in if England lost a wicket in the Super Over against New Zealand despite struggling for touch when he batted earlier in the day. Originally England planned for Jason Roy to be the third batsmen (a Super Over allows for one wicket to fall) in case Stokes or Buttler was dismissed but when they saw that New Zealand had decided to bowl from the Nursery End, Morgan volunteered to go in because as a left-hander it meant the leg side boundary would be shorter for him than right-handed Roy, who would have been hitting to the bigger playing area on the Grandstand side of the ground.

“All the drama, while you are involved in the game and concentrating on all the small things, you don’t really see what the fans and the people in the stands are watching,” said Bayliss of the frantic end to the final. “At the time, you don’t recognise that.  After everyone’s reactions overnight and in the morning, you start to get a realisation of how big it was.  For me, the Ashes win four years ago was big and hopefully there’s another one in a few weeks’ time.”