[3] Pybus was born in the North-East of England, He grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne till the age of 12 when his parents emigrated to Australia, attending Normanhurst Boys High School in Sydney.
He is currently the most successful coach in South African first-class cricket having guided the Titans and the Cape Cobras to nine championship titles over six seasons, winning the Supersport Series Four Day Competition four times.
Pybus began his professional coaching career at Selborne College in East London, South Africa.
He was Border U-19 Coach in this period and brought through Makhaya Ntini and Justin Kemp in a side unbeaten at the National U-19 week, captained by Boucher.
In 1998 Pybus took up the position of Border Cricket head coach, with Ntini and Boucher being key players in this side.
At the end of the South African season he re-joined Pakistan for a third time at the inception of Waqar Younis's captaincy, they toured England, tying the Test series with England 1–1 and losing the One day triangular final to Australia at Lords in a re-run of the 1999 World Cup Final.
At the end of the Multan Test, Pakistan were due to play a Test series against New Zealand in Pakistan, the series was called off because of the 11 September terrorist attacks and foreign nationals were told to leave the country because of security concerns.
Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir and Farhaan Behardien came through in this period and established their South African credentials.
He would again do the domestic double for the third coaching year in a row, this time with a team under his former Border player, Justin Kemp's leadership.
In 2011-12 the Cape Cobras won the One Day competition against the Warriors at Newlands and Pybus had three of his original Border U-19 side on the field, Justin Kemp and Mark Boucher playing for the Cobras and Makhaya Ntini playing for the Warriors.