Finch made 62 and 49 on debut in Dubai but endured a form slump in the home 2018-19 season after trying to adjust his technique to Test cricket and was dropped from the Test side after five matches. In 2018, amid a meltdown in Australian cricket centered around the ball-tampering scandal at Newlands, Finch found himself installed as the permanent national white-ball captain and was selected to make his Test match debut against Pakistan in the UAE despite a modest first-class record. He had been an automatic selection in Australia's ODI and T20 teams, and had set the tone for their triumphant 2015 World Cup with 135 in their opening match against England at the MCG.
Finch at the time was the No.1-ranked T20I batsman in the world, but found himself suddenly struggling to hold on to his place in the side. In 2014, Finch was named Australia's T20I captain, replacing George Bailey, but on the eve of the 2016 T20 World Cup in India the selectors decided to consolidate the captaincy of all three formats and handed the job to Steven Smith. He has twice held the record for the highest score in a T20I, his career-best 172, made against Zimbabwe in 2018, surpassing his 156 than he took off England in 2013 - an innings that included 14 sixes. He also made his Test debut in 2018 on the back of his white-ball form but the experiment of turning him into a Test opener only lasted five matches. A solidly-built, aggressive batsman from the country town of Colac in south-west Victoria, Aaron Finch ascended to become Australia's permanent ODI and T20I captain.
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