Tubby's surprise pick for new T20 captain

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Former skipper Mark Taylor has flagged all-rounder Mitchell Marsh arsenic a imaginable replacement for Aaron Finch arsenic Australia's T20 captain.

Finch announced his status from planetary cricket connected Tuesday morning, paving the mode for a caller skipper to instrumentality Australia to the adjacent T20 World Cup, scheduled to beryllium played successful the West Indies and United States successful mid-2024.

When pressed for the individuality of his apt successor, Finch said helium doubted whether Test and ODI skipper Pat Cummins would privation the job, fixed his already sizeable workload.

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Finch nominated Travis Head and Ashton Turner arsenic 2 players not presently successful the broadside who could instrumentality implicit arsenic captain.

Taylor agreed that portion Cummins could bash the job, helium conceded that taking connected the relation successful each 3 formats was apt to beryllium excessively much.

"Of people they're going to see Pat Cummins, and it's rather antithetic for maine to accidental this due to the fact that usually I similar having conscionable 1 leader, but it mightiness beryllium an accidental for Australia to look elsewhere," helium told Wide World of Sports.

"You've got Mitch Marsh, though he's already 31, and I'd besides see Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell arsenic well, though they're older than Marsh.

"They're the incumbent players who I would see arsenic imaginable leaders."

Neither Marsh nor Maxwell played successful the BBL this summer, with Marsh recovering from ankle country and Maxwell a breached leg.

Taylor added that Head would beryllium a campaigner for the occupation if he's chosen to capable the spot vacated by Finch successful the batting line-up.

"Head is surely different sanction you could propulsion in, but the lone occupation I've got is he's not successful the squad astatine the moment," Taylor explained.

"But if he's going to beryllium the guy that replaces Finch, past by each means see him.

"As you should bash successful each format, you prime your champion team, and past find the skipper from among the eleven. If Travis Head is successful the squad past you'd see him, but that whitethorn not beryllium the case."

That connection is simply a notation to Taylor's preferred enactment astatine the apical of the order, which is to regenerate Finch with the erstwhile skipper Steve Smith.

Smith has ne'er antecedently batted higher than No.3 for Australia successful T20 Internationals, but made consecutive hundreds for the Sydney Sixers arsenic an opener successful the precocious completed BBL competition.

Such was his interaction that helium was named successful the BBL squad of the tournament, contempt playing conscionable 5 of Sydney's 14 matches successful the radical stage. Controversially, Smith played lone 1 lucifer during the T20 World Cup astatine the commencement of the summer.

"For maine Steve Smith is idiosyncratic you'd powerfully see to unfastened successful Finch's place," Taylor said.

"He showed successful the BBL this summertime that helium could surely slot into that presumption for the adjacent fewer years.

"Listening to Smith, he's been intimating that he's not going to beryllium successful the crippled forever, but the World Cup is lone 16 months away, truthful possibly Smith astatine the apical of the bid for his past mates of years successful this format is the mode to go.

"At this signifier I'd thin towards Smith opening, due to the fact that we each cognize however bully helium is."

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