Aaron Finch wants to make a return in Test cricket

Cricket Australia decided to ban Steve Smith and David Warner for a year for ball tampering. While this ban can potentially break the back of the Australian batting, it has opened chances for fringe players. Aaron Finch is a pivotal part of limited overs set-up of Australia. According to reports, Aaron Finch can be made the captain of the limited-overs teams.

Aaron Finch struggled initially

Some critics of Aaron Finch, don’t consider him to be good enough for the longest format of the game. The Australian opener has a good record in the first-class cricket since. The Victorian has an impressive average of 49.27 in first-class cricket since 2014. The opening batsman initially struggled in the Sheffield Shield, where he could only manage to score 511 runs in 3 seasons between 2011 and 2014.

Finch admitted that he struggled initially and revealed that he worked hard, “I started off really well in Shield cricket when I first came in, I was 23, got a few runs and then for some reason out of the blue, I just started getting lbw every innings,” Finch told The Howie Games podcast.

He said that he worked really hard on his technique but it kept getting worse for him. He admitted that his poor record went against him as it gave ammunition to his critics, who believed that he can’t do well in red ball cricket.

“My record suffered a lot through that period, probably supported everyone’s opinion that I can’t play the red ball, my defence isn’t good enough, and that’s fine, but in the last three years I think I’ve averaged around 48 in Australia, in England in county cricket, where you get some difficult conditions and wickets, the ball swings a lot.” Aaron Finch further added

Training hard to play Test cricket

Aaron Finch accepted that it would be a huge achievement for him to play Test cricket. “Four-day cricket I’ve come to the realisation that everyone gets out, regardless if it’s a duck or for 200, everyone gets out eventually in the game of cricket so I’ve embraced that, but don’t be content with getting out,” Finch said about Test cricket.