RICH Pyrah will take the next step on the coaching ladder this winter by spending time in Australia with Jason Gillespie.

The Yorkshire all-rounder, 32, has designs on a coaching career once he hangs up his boots and he has already achieved the Level Three qualification with the ECB.

Pyrah will start studying for Level Four at the end of the ongoing summer, as well as travelling to work with Gillespie's Big Bash Twenty20 team Adelaide Strikers.

Last winter, the county's beneficiary for 2015 also spent time in South Africa as the head coach on a ProCoach Cricket Academy tour alongside Headingley skipper Andrew Gale.

Now, as part of a month down under, Pyrah will also work with Aaron Finch's Twenty20 team Melbourne Renegades and state side Victoria Bushrangers, for whom Finch and fellow White Rose team-mate Glenn Maxwell play.

Gillespie said: "I think Rich could be a coach down the line, yes. He's going to come out to Australia and get a bit of experience and I think that will be great for him.

"He's going to be at Adelaide with me and the Strikers for a little while – but he's also going to spend some time with the Melbourne Renegades and the Victoria Bushrangers and will be out there for about a month.

"He's starting his Level Four coaching over the winter and it's just a good opportunity for him to see how things work on the other side of the world in different environments."

Gillespie's first of two years as coach of home-town team Adelaide begins on December 18 and runs through until January 24, should the Strikers reach the Big Bash League final.