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    Because of the World Cup next year, it was a good time to step down, says Aaron Finch

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    Because of the World Cup next year, it was a good time to step down, says Aaron Finch

    Because of the World Cup next year, it was a good time to step down, says Aaron Finch. Australia’s captain, Aaron Finch, has said that he will stop playing one-day international cricket after the team’s last game against New Zealand on Sunday.

    Since scoring 62 runs against Sri Lanka in an ODI in June, Finch, who is 35, has been in a bad run of form. Since then, he has averaged just 3.7 runs per game, including three blanks.

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    Cricket Australia said in a statement on Saturday that Finch will continue to lead Australia’s Twenty20 team. He will do so when the T20 World Cup is held in Australia. This will happen in October and November. Australia will try to defend its world title.

    “It has been a fantastic ride with some incredible memories,” said Finch, who played 145 ODI matches, 54 as captain.

    “It is time now to give a new leader the best possible opportunity to prepare for and win the next World Cup.” When he is at his best, Finch is one of the most dangerous opening batters in the world. In ODIs, he has scored 5,401 runs and averaged close to 40, with 17 centuries. But in his last seven innings, he never scored more than 20, and his spot on the team was in doubt.

    “Being a bit over 12 months out from the 50-over World Cup, I thought the timing was right now,” Finch said. “I could have tried to play the England series post-World Cup. That would have been a bit of a fairytale at the MCG. But that’s never been my style to be self-indulgent in any kind of way.”

    About Finch

    Finch’s first match for Australia was a Twenty20 International (T20I) against England in January 2011. Two years later, he played against Sri Lanka in his first One Day International (ODI).

    Finch currently holds two of the three records for the highest individual scores in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). His score of 172 against Zimbabwe in July 2018 conquered his forenamed record of 156 against England in 2013.

    In July 2018, he was the first player on the official International Cricket Council (ICC) T20I rankings to reach 900 rating points.

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