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born 1986 Australia
Aaron James Finch (born 17 November 1986) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer who previously captained the Australia national cricket team in both One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. An opening batter and occasional left arm orthodox spinner, he made his international debut in 2011.
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You want everyone to be so good, and you expect a lot of other people and from yourself as well.
Even Rohit [Sharma] started at Deccan [Chargers, before moving to Mumbai Indians].
It's finding that balance of how to manage your career in such a chaotic world with zero rest for players.
When you're playing against the best in the world, 1% is sometimes all you can find, and that's so important.
Spending time with the analyst and going through different scenarios of what might happen was something that fascinated me.
You still have to have a platform to be able to launch your innings from.
I always loved the strategy side of it, and as I continued and ended up captaining Australia, I loved the preparation.
I tried to control it as best I could, but it's just the reality of it when it's high stakes and high pressure.
They were almost revolutionary in the way that they went about it, so it was a good time to come into T20 cricket.
Being a little older when I was exposed to international cricket and IPL, you've played more longer-form cricket in that period of time.
It certainly was for me. It just gives you another avenue to be successful more often.
You still have to have a fundamental technique to fall back on. You see guys in T20 now who get really hot for a period and then really cold for a long period.
If you've got somebody throwing numbers out at you the whole time, your creative flair as a captain can be really diminished
I was always pretty good at separating the two, and understanding that my job as a batsman is to get runs at the top of the order.
I guess that's the case with guys who are playing so much T20 cricket now - not having the opportunity to go back and work on their game with zero pressure.
It's just the fact that they don't have a fundamental technique to fall back on, and generally they're younger guys who are still trying to work out their game.
And if you just don't get that balance quite right first up, it doesn't take too many games for you to start doubting yourself - and then, all of a sudden, it's a flow-on effect.
The ability to sit down and try to find 1% or 2% edges on an opposition is the part of it that I loved
That wasn't a part that I ever stressed about, or felt like it weighed me down.
It was almost a bit of a hit-and-giggle still. Until the IPL came in, it probably wasn't taken as seriously as what everyone thought it should be.
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