Australian T20I skipper Aaron Finch feels that the Australian squad has come out of the hangover of the ODI defeat against England and they are confident of winning the lone T20I at Edgbaston. Australia has endured a forgettable tour so far, witnessing first ever whitewash against its oldest rival – Sunday’s Jos Buttler-inspired reverse at Old Trafford completing a 5-0 whitewash.

Finch is expecting to finish the trip on a high and he believes the shortest format is a discipline Australia is stronger than its host in. He said, “The one-day series didn’t go quite how we would have liked but we have a lot of confidence in this format. We’ve played the tri-series quite recently and were very successful, pretty similar squad as well so going into this we’re very confident.”

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He further added, “I think in the one-day format the confidence was definitely affected, England definitely put us on the back foot from the word go in the series and we weren’t able to catch up. But in this format, we have had some great success recently. We’ve come from seventh in the world to first or second, that’s a great achievement.”

Talking about the preparations further, Aaron said, “And we’ve done that with teams that have been mixed and matched at times. Now we’re starting to get a bit more settled on a squad that’s going to take us forward. We’ve got a lot of confidence in this format, the confidence in one dayers took a little bit of a hit, but I don’t think they’ll be anything to worry about in this format.”

Finch concluded by stating that they have got some talented youngsters in their T20I squad and even some of them weren’t in the ODI squad so that they don’t have the burden of the ODI series loss. He feels that its a great opportunity to get on the field and give their best in the format they’ve been really successful in recently.