Finch: Missing Aussies can't play IPL
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Aaron Finch believes that players who have opted out of white-ball tours against the West Indies and Bangladesh will find it difficult to justify returning to the Indian Premier League.
Apparently, the top players include Steve Smith, David Warner, Pat Cummins, Jhye Richardson, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Marcus Stoinis, and Daniel Sams have withdrawn their name from the tours.
The Australian captain was not surprised by Warner and Cummins’s absence from the tours as he knew the duo’s plans to skip the series due to family time. But he was surprised to see the other five players’ unavailability due to various personal reasons and mental health issues.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) was suspended last month after several players and staff tested positive for COVID-19, but the Indian Cricket Board intends to resume the tournament in the United Arab Emirates in September and October.
"This is only my personal opinion but I think they would find it hard to justify going back and playing that second half of the IPL," Finch told Perth radio station.
"Just purely based on the workload coming up with a T20 World Cup and a huge home summer. It's a tough situation that everyone has been put in, but personally I would find it hard to do that knowing how difficult it is and how challenging it is mentally, and on your family as well. That's what I would think," he added.
