Following Steve Smith’s involvement in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town, Aaron Finch was appointed captain in white-ball cricket while Tim Paine was given the reins in the longest format.
Matthew Wade, who replaced the injured Finch in the second T20I, acknowledged that the team is full of leaders who successfully co-exist.
Furthering the point, the wicketkeeper-batsman weighed in on Steve Smith getting back the Australian captaincy.
‘I almost feel like I restarted my career a couple of years ago,’ says Matthew Wade
Matthew Wade was axed from Australia’s Test and T20 sides ahead of the 2017-18 Ashes, and the status didn’t change for two years. It was only after he scored a mountain of runs for Tasmania and the Hobart Hurricanes that he earned a call-up.
Wade announced his comeback in style by amassing 337 runs in the five Ashes Tests last year. The 32-year-old revealed that he has completely changed as a cricketer over the past two years.
He gave the examples of Brad Haddin and Michael Hussey, both of whom were late bloomers before eventually making it big at the international level.
Wade, who has scored 3,564 runs in 32 Tests, 94 ODIs and 32 T20Is, will again lead out the Aussies on Tuesday (December 8) if Aaron Finch doesn’t recover in time. This time, the southpaw would aim to stamp his authority as captain and help the hosts end the white-ball leg on a winning note.
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