Australia’s Twenty20 captain Aaron Finch is set to call time on his glittering international cricket career.
The 36-year-old has called a press conference at the MCG on Tuesday morning when he is expected to announce his retirement from the shortest format of the game at the international level.
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Finch retired from one-day international cricket in September, but remained captain of the T20 side for last year’s unsuccessful World Cup defence on home soil.
He brings down the curtain on his international career having amassed more than 8,500 runs across all three forms of the game, including five Test matches and 146 ODIs.
He made his T20I debut in 2011 and went on to play a total of 103 matches for Australia, leading the team as captain to World Cup success in 2021.
He hangs up his gloves as one of the 20-over format’s greatest players; he twice held the record for the highest T20I score – he made 156 against England in 2013 before beating his own record with a knock of 172 against Zimbabwe five years later.
Finch again starred in the Big Bash League this Australian summer, scoring 428 runs for the Melbourne Renegades and being selected in the team of the tournament.
His departure leaves Cricket Australia looking for a new captain, although the governing body has time to conduct a search with their next T20I not scheduled until September.
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