Hyderabad: Ricky Ponting, the two-time World Cup winning captain of Australia, has backed Aron Finch to lead defending champion Australian team in the upcoming 2019 World Cup in England.
“He’s been Australia’s best performed one-day batsman in the last couple of seasons. He’s made more hundreds than anybody else. Although he’s recently gone through a real tough time, if he can get through the other side of that before the World Cup, it could be – as hard as it sounds on him – it almost could be perfect timing," former Aussie skipper said.
Finch has just managed one half-century in the last 13 ODIs which has raised questions over his inclusion in the side.
"Finch would rather be going through that now than going through that at the start of the World Cup and having your captain completely out of form going through an entire World Cup,” the talisman batsman added.
Australia was down by 2-0 in the five-match series against the Men in Blue and Finch led his team to a remarkable 3-2 win in the series. The 32-year-old might be going through a bad patch with his bat but his captaincy skills have impressed many cricket experts including Ponting.
While appreciating the on-field decision making of Finch, Ponting said,"His captaincy, from what I’ve seen in the last few months even though he hasn’t been batting that well, has looked really sharp and he’s going to have a great squad of players. He’s the man, for me, to captain Australia throughout hopefully a successful World Cup campaign."
The Australian legend went on to say: “Tactically what I’ve seen, he’s looked sharp. It’s always a challenge for the captain if you’re not going well yourself, to not let anybody know that it’s affecting you. It always affects you as a player when you’re having a bad trot, but the best leaders that I’ve ever seen have been the guys that haven’t got too high when they’ve been going too well, and haven’t got too low when they’ve been going poorly.”
Meanwhile, Australia's confidence will be on a high as they won a series in India after 10 years. But now the selectors will face the problem of plenty as Steve Smith and David Warner are primed to make a comeback in the World Cup squad and the likes of Ashton Turner, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb all doing remarkably well in the middle order.
World Cup 2019: Ricky Ponting hopeful of Australia's chances under captain Finch
Ricky Ponting has backed Aron Finch to lead defending champion Australian team in the upcoming 2019 World Cup in England.
Hyderabad: Ricky Ponting, the two-time World Cup winning captain of Australia, has backed Aron Finch to lead defending champion Australian team in the upcoming 2019 World Cup in England.
“He’s been Australia’s best performed one-day batsman in the last couple of seasons. He’s made more hundreds than anybody else. Although he’s recently gone through a real tough time, if he can get through the other side of that before the World Cup, it could be – as hard as it sounds on him – it almost could be perfect timing," former Aussie skipper said.
Finch has just managed one half-century in the last 13 ODIs which has raised questions over his inclusion in the side.
"Finch would rather be going through that now than going through that at the start of the World Cup and having your captain completely out of form going through an entire World Cup,” the talisman batsman added.
Australia was down by 2-0 in the five-match series against the Men in Blue and Finch led his team to a remarkable 3-2 win in the series. The 32-year-old might be going through a bad patch with his bat but his captaincy skills have impressed many cricket experts including Ponting.
While appreciating the on-field decision making of Finch, Ponting said,"His captaincy, from what I’ve seen in the last few months even though he hasn’t been batting that well, has looked really sharp and he’s going to have a great squad of players. He’s the man, for me, to captain Australia throughout hopefully a successful World Cup campaign."
The Australian legend went on to say: “Tactically what I’ve seen, he’s looked sharp. It’s always a challenge for the captain if you’re not going well yourself, to not let anybody know that it’s affecting you. It always affects you as a player when you’re having a bad trot, but the best leaders that I’ve ever seen have been the guys that haven’t got too high when they’ve been going too well, and haven’t got too low when they’ve been going poorly.”
Meanwhile, Australia's confidence will be on a high as they won a series in India after 10 years. But now the selectors will face the problem of plenty as Steve Smith and David Warner are primed to make a comeback in the World Cup squad and the likes of Ashton Turner, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb all doing remarkably well in the middle order.
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Hyderabad: Ricky Ponting, the two-time World Cup winning captain of Australia, has backed Aron Finch to lead defending champion Australian team in the upcoming 2019 World Cup in England.
“He’s been Australia’s best performed one-day batsman in the last couple of seasons. He’s made more hundreds than anybody else. Although he’s recently gone through a real tough time, if he can get through the other side of that before the World Cup, it could be – as hard as it sounds on him – it almost could be perfect timing," former Aussie skipper said.
Finch has just managed one half-century in the last 13 ODIs which has raised questions over his inclusion in the side.
"Finch would rather be going through that now than going through that at the start of the World Cup and having your captain completely out of form going through an entire World Cup,” the talisman batsman added.
Australia was down by 2-0 in the five-match series against the Men in Blue and Finch led his team to a remarkable 3-2 win in the series. The 32-year-old might be going through a bad patch with his bat but his captaincy skills have impressed many cricket experts including Ponting.
While appreciating the on-field decision making of Finch, Ponting said,"His captaincy, from what I’ve seen in the last few months even though he hasn’t been batting that well, has looked really sharp and he’s going to have a great squad of players. He’s the man, for me, to captain Australia throughout hopefully a successful World Cup campaign."
The Australian legend went on to say: “Tactically what I’ve seen, he’s looked sharp. It’s always a challenge for the captain if you’re not going well yourself, to not let anybody know that it’s affecting you. It always affects you as a player when you’re having a bad trot, but the best leaders that I’ve ever seen have been the guys that haven’t got too high when they’ve been going too well, and haven’t got too low when they’ve been going poorly.”
Meanwhile, Australia's confidence will be on a high as they won a series in India after 10 years. But now the selectors will face the problem of plenty as Steve Smith and David Warner are primed to make a comeback in the World Cup squad and the likes of Ashton Turner, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb all doing remarkably well in the middle order.
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