Australia skipper Aaron Finch is eager to lead his side in the defence of the T20 World Cup when the tournament will come home next year albeit conceding his longstanding fitness concerns with the knee injury.
Finch said that he will need some time off the game to sort his knee completely which also affected his game in the T20 World Cup. He also lacked assurance over his rehabilitation and said that the next few weeks will determine his growth and return to full fitness.
"If I can get there, absolutely," Finch said. "I probably need a little bit of extra time to get my knee right now. I pushed the rehab really hard and probably paid the price for it a little bit throughout the tournament. So yeah, maybe a little bit more time off at the moment to just make sure I get that right.
"I'll wait and see over the next couple of weeks and not sure when our first game is for the Renegades Adelaide but we'll wait and see to see if I'm right."
Earlier today, Finch gave up on the captaincy of the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League take cognisance of the toll the leadership takes on one’s mental state and also with physical injury concerns. However, the same sort of pattern has not been employed yet for Australia even though he has had a conversation with the chairman of selectors George Bailey.
He has all but ruled out leadership change for Australia’s world cup-winning side and said that his conversation with Bailey was more to do with charting out a blueprint for the near future.
"I've spoken a Bails about that over the last probably six months that. There's going to be a period over the next two or three years definitely but that was all. That wasn't an in-depth conversation. Was just more to put on the to-do list over the next couple of months,” Finch added.