Aaron Finch with the bat and Mitchell Starc with the ball set the tone against Afghanistan – and perhaps the rest of the tournament
If you glance at Australia’s team sheet and think of the 2015 World Cup, not much has changed. Aaron Finch and David Warner still open the batting. Steve Smith takes one of the driving seats in the middle order. Glenn Maxwell comes after that to set up the late surge. And with the ball, Mitchell Starc and Patrick Cummins partner up for pace and more pace.
All of the major pieces are still in places. But coming into the 2019 World Cup, the current setup was lacking a couple of important starting pieces. One was the way that Starc conducts himself at the start of a bowling innings. Another was Finch’s equivalent for batting. Australia’s first match against Afghanistan on Saturday suggested that both these problems have a chance of being solved.
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