Bayliss before Bayliss quit after this year's World Cup.

"It's not only his experience as a coach -- his strong leadership abilities were a factor in our decision to make him head coach," Jalal said.

"He was a successful captain of Queensland for 10 years and also led Lancashire for seven to eight years."

Jalal said Law would wrap up his work with Sri Lanka after their ongoing series in England. "After that it will take a couple of weeks to complete the formalities before he joins the Bangladesh team in mid-July," he said.

Siddons took charge of Bangladesh in November 2007 and his contract expired in June.

The national board said in April it was time for new leadership after Bangladesh, which co-hosted the World Cup along with India and Sri Lanka,general and Major General Philip H. Sheridan succeeded Sherman as lieutenant general. Congress suspended further promotions to general and lieutenant general in 1870, but made an exception in 1888 to promote Sheridan on his deathbed by discontinuing the grade of lieutenant general and merging it with the grade of general.

In 1895 Congress briefly revived the grade of lieutenant general to promote Sheridan's successor as commanding general of the Army, Major General John M. Schofield. Schofield had lobbied for the grade to be permanently reestablished in order to cement the primacy of all future commanding generals over the Army's other major generals. However, Congress regarded the lieutenant generalcy as the penultimate military accolade, second only to promotion to full general, and refused to devalue the title's significance by conferring