Cairns: Australia’s limited overs captain Aaron Finch on Saturday announced his retirement from the 50-over format ahead of the third and final ODI against New Zealand. Finch will continue to play in T20 cricket and will lead the Australian team in the upcoming T20 World Cup. The explosive opener’s form in ODI cricket has been going downhill for some time now. He got out in single digits in the last seven innings.
Finch made his ODI debut for Australia in 2013 and has since played 145 matches, scoring 5401 runs at an average of 39.13 and a strike rate of 87.83. Aaron Finch is one of the legendary cricketers of Australia and he made many records and achieved achievements in the ODI format. Let’s take a look at this:
Australia’s 3rd highest ODI century batsman
Aaron Finch scored 17 centuries in ODI cricket. Finch is third in terms of scoring the most centuries in ODI cricket for Australia. Ricky Ponting (29) is at number-1 in terms of scoring the most centuries for Australia. David Warner and Mark Waugh are in joint second place. Both have scored 18-18 centuries.
Second Australian captain to score most ODI centuries
Aaron Finch scored 6 ODI centuries while being the Australian captain. He is the second Australian captain after Ricky Ponting (22) to score the most centuries.
Jointly third in terms of scoring the most centuries in ODIs against a team
Aaron Finch has played many memorable innings against England. He has scored seven centuries against England in ODIs. Aaron Finch is joint third in terms of scoring the most centuries against only one team in ODIs.
2015 world cup winner
Aaron Finch was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 World Cup title at home. Michael Clarke was the captain of that Australian team. Apart from this, Finch made Australia T20 World Cup champions in his captaincy for the first time in 2021.
Australia’s best ODI player of the year in 2020
Aaron Finch won the Australian ODI Player of the Year title in 2020, surpassing David Warner and Usman Khawaja. Then he scored 1141 runs at an average of 51.86. During this he scored four centuries.
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