Couple of T20 records beckons AJ Finch Australia’s white ball captain

Couple of T20 records beckons AJ Finch Australia’s white ball captain

AJ Finch has played 299 T20 games prior to the start of the T20I series against India. The first T20I against India at Canberra on 04.12.20, in which he is captaining Australia would be his 300th T20 games. He would become the 28th cricketer in the history of T20 games to appear in 300 T20 games. He would also become the second Australian cricketer to appear in 300 T20 games after SR Watson. SR Watson has played 343 T20 games.

NoPlayerMatRunsCW5CtSt
1KA Pollard52810475129103000
2DJ Bravo4716331051222300
3CH Gayle4111358422800920
4Shoaib Malik40210184014921560
5RS Bopara3707276123411250
6BB McCullum370992270015314
7ten Doeschate3697524211401310
8Sohail Tanvir353234703682610
9SP Narine351250603901760
10SR Watson3438821621601010
11AD Russell3405704230001530
12RG Sharma340897462901370
13DR Smith3377870511001410
14MS Dhoni331682100018584
15DT Christian3264844224021350
16AB de Villiers3259111421518
17LJ Wright32579987790970
18DA Miller32069003002061
19DJG Sammy3203918016011230
20JA Morkel319424802480710
21SK Raina319839245301640
22Shahid Afridi319432213422930
23Shakib Al Hasan309498503554780
24Imran Tahir30625503822680
25Mohd Hafeez304661821770990
26EJG Morgan304684101350
27KD Karthik302587701018159
28AJ Finch29993078701320
29DA Warner29898248001440

DA Warner has played 298 T20 games and the second T20I against India at Sydney on 06.12.20 would be his 300th T20 game. This game would go down in the history of T20 games as a game in which the openers of team has played 300 T20 games only if AJ Finch and DA Warner open the innings for Australia. DA Warner would become the 29th batsman in the history of T20 games to play 300 T20 games

AJ Finch has led in 106 T20 games of which he has won 49 games, lost 55 games and two games have ended as No Result games. He needs one win which would fetch him 50 wins and with he would become the second Australian captain to win 50 plus T20 games after GJ Bailey. GJ Bailey has won 53 games of the 105 T20 games he has captained. He has lost 50 games, one game ended in a Tie and one game ended as a No Result game.

NoPlayerMatWonLostTiedNR
1MS Dhoni28416611323
2DJG Sammy2081049725
3G Gambhir170987011
4RG Sharma140874940
5Shoaib Malik132854322
6Sarfaraz Ahmed124804301
7V Kohli162777456
8Mashrafe Mortaza126715401
9Misbah-ul-Haq99613620
10M Klinger120605127
11KA Pollard107564515
12Shakib Al Hasan98544400
13GJ Bailey105535011
14KC Sangakkara114516120
15Mushfiqur Rahim110505811
16AJ Finch106495502

AJ Finch has scored 899 boundary fours prior to the start of the T20I series against India. One more boundary four would fetch him his 900th boundary four and with it he would earn the distinction of becoming the fourth batsman in the history of T20 games to score 900 plus boundary four. Others are – CH Gayle {1001}, DA Warner {958} and BB McCullum {924}

The game in which AJ Finch gets his 900th boundary four would go down in the history of T20 game as a game in which both the openers have scored 900 plus boundary fours, provided DA Warner is the other opening batsman. Australia takes the credit for this record.

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