Xtra Time Web Desk: Australian white ball captain Aaron Finch on Thursday heaped huge compliment for his counterpart Virat Kohli ahead of the start of ODI series at SCG on Friday. Finch rated Kohli as the best ODI player of all time. Having shared the dressing room with Kohli recently in the IPL 2020, Finch is aware there isn’t much he can do to stop a batsman of Kohli’s calibre, whom the Aussie captain believes is probably the ‘best one-day player of all time’.
“If you look at his record it’s second to none. “It really is remarkable. I think what we have to keep in mind is that we have to keep looking to get him out,” Finch said ahead of the first ODI.
“When you go away from that and you look to contain players you can miss a trick there. There’s not too many chinks in his armour. He’s probably the best one-day player of all time so it’s about sticking to our plans and being really committed in that regard.”
Australia will be keen to exact revenge for their series defeat to India the last time around. Besides India’s historic 2-1 triumph in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy during their tour in 2018-19, India also secured the ODI series 2-1 and the drew the T20Is 1-1. It was the first time that Australia did not win a single series on their soil against India and it’s a trivia that sits very prominently on captain Aaron Finch’s mind.