Considering the kind of player Virat Kohli is, one has to be really brave to write him off any stage, revealed Australian skipper Aaron Finch ahead of the blockbuster three match T20 international series.
India will start off their home series against Australia on September 20. The next T20I match will take place in Nagpur on September 23, followed by the third and final T20I match in Hyderabad on September 25.
“You would be a very very brave man to write off Virat at any stage. He has shown for 15 years now, that he is one of the greatest players of all time. Particularly in T20 cricket, he is someone who has developed his game and grown his game over for such a long period. You are always trying to prepare to the best of your ability when you are coming up against Virat,” Finch said during a press conference ahead of the match.
“He is super, 71 international hundreds, that is just ridiculous,” he added.
Questioned on his own form, Finch said that one gets comfortable with criticism over a long period of time.
“My form has been really good for a long time in T20 cricket. If you separate the ODI form from the T20 form, then it is completely different. They are two completely different formats of the game,” he added.
Leading up to his ODI retirement, Finch was in terrible form in that format, having scored only 169 runs in 13 ODIs this year at an average of 13.00. He crossed the fifty-run mark only once this year in ODI with a best of 62.
While his T20I stats have been solid in 2022. In nine matches this year, he has scored 247 runs at an average of 30.87. He has the best score of 61* and two half-centuries in the format this year. Meanwhile, Kohli has found his mojo back during the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2022 and also hit his much anticipated 71st international ton after over 1,000 days.