The Australian team will be entering in the ICC World Cup 2019 as the defending champions and with a chance to win their 6th trophy and captain Aaron Finch is already dreaming of holding the World Cup trophy at Lord’s on July 14.
"I think it's important to let yourself dream about that because then you've got something to chase. I think if you go over there just hoping to win, you're not being one hundred percent committed," Finch told cricket.com.au
"No matter what you dream or what you envisage, it doesn't always come true but it gives you a chance to achieve it. I think if you go over there and don't believe you can win it, then you won't. So I quite clearly picture us holding the Cup on the balcony at Lord's on the 14th of July … absolutely I do," Finch further added.
Australia turned around a sad year of limited overs cricket with 8 consecutive victories over India and Pakistan away from home, just before the World Cup. “We'd been improving – it was there, but we hadn't quite got it together for the full 50 overs with the bat," Finch said of the team's form prior before the India tour. We would be in a great position and just let a game go, or we'd have a partnership that instead of putting on 120 or 140 runs would be broken around 80 which meant we had to start again. It just wasn't quite working, which is so costly against really good teams. So when it started clicking in those games against India and Pakistan, it was a really satisfying reward for a lot of hard work."
Finch encountered a wretched run of form not scoring a half-century in nine matches before turning it around with a 93 against India in Ranchi. Finch went on to make two centuries and two half-centuries against Pakistan in five matches. Finch revealed that he had even apologized to his team after a scoring a first-ball duck against India in a T20I in Melbourne late last year.
He said, "We had a quick meeting after the game, and I apologized to the team," Finch revealed. "I said 'I'm sorry boys, I'm trying my hardest but I just can't get any runs. That was really exciting for me, it meant so much to see how happy others were for me to get some runs. The lessons that I learned and the support that I got from players and everyone was unbelievable, and it really makes you think about the care that there is for the individual player."
(cricket.com.au inputs)
