Aaron Finch has announced he will retire from ODI Cricket after playing his final game in the format against New Zealand on sunday in Cairns. He will continue to lead Australia in T20I format.
Australian captain Aaron Finch announces retirement from ODI Cricket ahead of World Cup 2023. He will retire after playing his last match against New Zealand on sunday in Cairns. It is a shocking news for some of Australian fans.
“It has been a fantastic ride with some incredible memories. I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of some brilliant one-day sides. Equally, I have been blessed by all those I have played with and the many people behind the scenes,” Finch said in a statement.
He will continue to lead Australia in T20I format. Australia will try to defend their T20I World Cup title on home soil under the captaincy of Finch. T20I World Cup will begin from the next month.
Australia have eight T20I (including warm-up match against India) to plan and make a good team for the upcoming T20I World Cup. It will also give time to Aaron Finch to return in form and lead the team.
Finch said that he is retiring to give sometime to the new captain to prepare for the World Cup 2023.
Aaron Finch announces retirement from ODI
“It is time now to give a new leader the best possible opportunity to prepare for and win the next World Cup. I thank all of those who have helped and supported my journey to this point,” Finch said.
Aaron Finch has been lacking form in his last few ODI matches, with five of his last 12 innings being ducks. In his last 7 innings, he has made just 26 runs. Despite he has a good record in the ODI format. He made 5400 runs in ODI with 17 hundreds, third-most for Australia’s men behind Ricky Ponting (29), David Warner (18) and Mark Waugh (18).
“I think my T20 form has been pretty good for a little while now, [it’s a] totally different format, but I’m really comfortable that I’m still playing well, just haven’t got as many runs in this format,” he said. “Don’t know what the difference is, maybe a bit of intent, a bit of risk-taking that you get away with in T20 cricket,” Finch said.
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Aaron Finch made his debut in International Cricket against Sri Lanka at the MCG in 2013. His first century came against Scotland later that year when he struck 148. His career-best of 153 not out was against Pakistan in Sharjah in 2019. He hit 4 ODI hundreds in 2019.
Finch loved to play against Pakistan, England and India. He had a particularly impressive record against Pakistan (49.16 average, 2 hundreds), India (48.66 average, 4 hundreds) and England (48.35 average, 7 hundreds).
He was the part of Australian Cricket team during the win of 2015 World Cup. He became permanent white-ball captain of Australia after the 2018 ball-tampering scandal which banned Steven Smith. Finch led Australia to the semi-finals in the 2019 World Cup in England but they lost to the hosts.
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