Surprise name emerges as next T20 captain

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Australia needs to look ahead, not backwards, erstwhile it comes to choosing Aaron Finch's replacement arsenic T20 captain, according to erstwhile skippers Mark Taylor and Ian Chappell.

Finch remains successful uncertainty for the must-win World Cup lucifer against Afghanistan successful Adelaide, and the anticipation exists that he's played his last lucifer for Australia.

Matthew Wade volition skipper if Finch is absent.

The 35-year-old Finch is wide expected to discontinue from planetary cricket aft this World Cup, having discontinue the 50-over format of the crippled successful September.

At this stage, the Australian T20 broadside won't play again until August 2023, portion the adjacent World Cup volition beryllium held successful the West Indies and United States successful June 2024.

Australia's T20 squad has been rather unchangeable implicit the past 12 months, with the lone alteration to the broadside that won past year's World Cup being the inclusion of Tim David successful the mediate bid for Steve Smith.

Cameron Green is the lone subordinate of the 15-man squad for this year's tourney nether the property of 29.

The property of Finch's imaginable replacements is what worries Taylor.

"Australia's adjacent large duty successful T20 cricket is the World Cup successful 2 years time," helium said connected Wide World of Sports' Outside the Rope.

"Bear successful caput that David Warner volition beryllium astir 38, Steve Smith volition beryllium 35, Matthew Wade's astir apt retired of contention due to the fact that he'll beryllium 36.

"Looking astatine replacing Aaron Finch, I deliberation Australia should beryllium looking astatine the adjacent procreation to commencement rebuilding this broadside altogether."

With the evident replacements ruled out, Taylor is looking elsewhere for Australia's adjacent leader, including 23-year-old Green.

"We've got rather an oldish T20 broadside that won past year, I deliberation they've got to beryllium looking astatine idiosyncratic similar Mitch Marsh, Travis Head if helium makes the team, Alex Carey if helium takes the gloves, oregon idiosyncratic similar Cameron Green, who's successful and retired of the squad astatine the moment.

"They're the guys I'd beryllium looking astatine to beryllium the person of our T20 broadside successful 2 years time. It besides gives them an accidental to person a look astatine them arsenic leaders, for different formats of the game."

Stream each Australian men's T20 World Cup lucifer positive selected different matches, including the finals, unrecorded and escaped on 9Now.

It's a connection that besides has the backing of Chappell.

"You've got to look ahead, not look backwards," helium said.

While the anticipation of Warner's beingness enactment prohibition being lifted and the opener succeeding Finch arsenic skipper has been floated, Chappell said that won't happen.

The erstwhile captain, who has been captious of the determination to manus Warner a antithetic prohibition to the 1 fixed to Smith for the sandpaper fiasco successful 2018, conceded the opener's clip has passed.

"They mightiness marque bully radical of themselves and alteration their caput now, but that's useless," helium said.

"Warner's not going to skipper anything, not for Australia anyhow."

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