India vs Australia | Aaron Finch attributes his failure to his inability to stick with his training methods

The morale in the Australian cricket team dugout must be at an all-time low at the moment considering the manner in which the home team were defeated by a determined and motivated Indian outfit led by the fearless, Virat Kohli. The past few months have been tough for the Australians and the squad will hope that the return of Steven Smith and David Warner in the coming months will improve the fortunes of the squad.

However, ODI captain Aaron Finch opened up about his struggles with his niggling finger injury and the quest to find form which was evident in his below-par performances in the recently concluded 2-1 series loss against India.

“It was my choice to keep hitting balls and you’re searching for form, you’re searching for something. You don’t want to walk off after getting out in a Test ... and think ‘geez, if only I’d hit some more balls. That was a really hard thing to bring myself to do – to not bat. I know I’ve had success not batting a huge amount... I just didn’t have the courage to stick to it,” Finch was quoted as saying by Scroll.in.

Finch looked unsure and out-of-form all throughout the series since the first Test in Adelaide and that ultimately showed at the crease. The left-handed opener got just one fifty in the series and recorded scores of 0, 11, 50, 25, 8 and 3 in the first three Tests. Australian selectors had no option but to drop him for the Sydney Test.

Former Australia skipper Michael Clarke had argued that Finch should be moved down the batting line-up during the series but the team management never obliged. As a result, the aggressive opener often seemed to be torn between playing his natural game and shielding the impressive Indian pace attack.

“I said this before, when I was dropped from the one-day team after a really lean run – at times you’d like to have some bullets to fire back, but there are just none. It would have been a pretty easy call, to be fair,” Finch concluded.

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