MELBOURNE: Australian captain Aaron Finch acknowledged that his team needs to rest up before defending its T20 World Cup crown, but England captain Jos Buttler stated on Saturday that the hosts still hold the advantage.After a lacklustre three-match series against the English, the defending champions enter the marquee cricket tournament on home soil, which begins Sunday with the preliminary round.
Eight matches for Australia in 26 days came to an end with a 2-0 loss, with the third game being postponed due to rain on Friday evening. Three of those matches were played in India.
After the postponed England match, where he was dismissed for a first-ball duck, Finch observed, “I believe the boys are maybe a little bit fatigued at the moment.”The last six to eight weeks have been so jam-packed with events that we realised a few months ago that we needed to make sure we’re peaking at the correct time of the World Cup and not before.
