Finch's aggressive captain's knock the tonic Australia needed at World Cup

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ANALYSIS: Finch's aggressive captain's knock the tonic Australia needed at World Cup

We think of those. And we think of his drives, like the six he thwacked from Tim Southee in the 2015 World Cup match at Eden Park, before Southee bowled him trying the same shot next ball. Like Ishant Sharma detonating his stumps midway through an even bigger drive in the 2018 Adelaide Test.

Finch had 13 one-day centuries for Australia before this World Cup match. Eight of those never made it to 110. More interesting is the relative lack of speed: of 13 centuries, only three came at better than a run a ball. That's compared to his T20 international centuries, which he reached from 47 and 50 balls chronologically.Finch has rarely gone hard in one-dayers. One exception was on a 2016 tour of Sri Lanka, where he decided his best move on ragging decks was to smash the opening bowlers before a spinner inevitably got him. Two of his 10 fastest innings came in that series, including his fastest striking at 289 when he made 55 from 19 balls in Dambulla.

Another of the 10 fastest was the Scotland ton, one was against Afghanistan a fortnight ago, and aside from a random 53 against South Africa in 2016, none of the others were worth more than 22 runs .

 

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