David Warner’s text messages to teammate Aaron Finch did the out-of-white-ball captain a world in good stead as the 35-year-old scored his second consecutive half-century for the country in a 10-wicket win against Sri. Lanka in the opening T20 match here on Tuesday night.
Australia scored a major victory after a spectacular Sri Lanka collapse, with the hosts batting first, scoring just 128 runs. Warner (70 not out) and Finch (61 not out) put on a 134-run partnership in 12 overs to win the opening game of the three-match T20I series.
Finch’s form is already being questioned by the ICC T20 World Cup in UAE, which Australia won by defeating New Zealand. During the white-ball component during Australia’s tour of Pakistan in March-April this year, the white-ball captain scored just one half-century – in one-off T20Is.
He had poor scores of 23, 0 and 0 in the three-match ODI series against Pakistan before the one-off T20Is.
And coming into the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka, Finch didn’t have much to show in terms of runs – the 35-year-old scored just 86 runs at 17.20 in five matches for Kolkata Knight Riders. IPL 2022.
According to cricket.com.au, before the T20 match against Sri Lanka on Wednesday, Finch averaged 19.90 with a strike-rate of 107 in 21 innings in both limited-overs formats.
According to the report, Warner revealed after the match that the text messages sent to Finch during the IPL may have “helped him return to form”.
“I just kept in touch with him (during IPL), we always do,” Warner said. “We always support each other as much as possible. If we see little things, we always try to help each other out by sending them messages.”
Pointing out to Finch’s shortcomings, Warner said the white-ball captain was going over the line of the ball, obstructing his access to the ball.
“I just told him not to walk out into the ball, let the ball really do its job in the air. And if they want to bowl nice and full and you stay steady and maintain that leg-stump line, you’re going to get full contact with the ball, and if it swings late, it’s down. going towards.
“He was probably moving a little too much, he was running straight into the line of the ball and also moving at the time of delivery, and when you’re a batsman you don’t really want to do that unless you’re really In physically charging.
“For Finchy, it is about keeping it simple and not moving around the crease too much. We saw that tonight (against Sri Lanka), he played some good shots, he timed the ball well and when he is good and stable, he is at his best. He seemed to hit everything on the ground (in the first T20), when the ball was in his area, he hit his slog sweep, which he is very good at… and you can just see that there is no way to run between him. Along the energy was very different. The wicket and he was up and about, and it was great to see that,” Warner said.
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