Aaron Finch

“Even Rohit [Sharma] started at Deccan [Chargers, before moving to Mumbai Indians].”

“But that's one part of having a mega-auction every three years. Players probably missed that opportunity to really build a legacy at a club. There's not a huge amount of players that have done it right throughout.”

“I was a good enough player to keep getting picked, or I just wasn't quite good enough to be that one- or two-franchise type player. Of course, I'd have loved to stay at one franchise the whole time.”

“The ability to sit down and try to find 1% or 2% edges on an opposition is the part of it that I loved”

“Maybe [it did] slightly towards the back end of my career, when I knew that I was coming to the end and I wasn't performing as well as I would have liked - and you had guys like Travis Head waiting in the wings, ready to go.”

“That wasn't a part that I ever stressed about, or felt like it weighed me down.”

“I was able to compartmentalise.”

“I was always pretty good at separating the two, and understanding that my job as a batsman is to get runs at the top of the order.”

“I tried to control it as best I could, but it's just the reality of it when it's high stakes and high pressure.”

“I didn't get the balance right when I first started captaincy, and even towards the back end, there were still times when I was an emotional captain.”

“You want everyone to be so good, and you expect a lot of other people and from yourself as well.”

“When you first come in, you want to stamp your captaincy style on the team. I was emotional - far too emotional - when I first started captaining the Melbourne Renegades and then Pune [Warriors].”

“Spending time with the analyst and going through different scenarios of what might happen was something that fascinated me.”

“When you're playing against the best in the world, 1% is sometimes all you can find, and that's so important.”

“I always loved the strategy side of it, and as I continued and ended up captaining Australia, I loved the preparation.”

“When you come into a new set-up, being a youngster, no one's asking for your opinion, so you're just sitting back and watching everything unfold and forming your own ways to go about things when you do get an opportunity.”

“. I always captained junior and representative sides coming through, and that was a big part of my development, being exposed to the tactical side of it - and not just on the field, but off-the-field management.”

“It's finding that balance of how to manage your career in such a chaotic world with zero rest for players.”

“It's always guys trying to tinker with their game between matches or tournaments, or series for their country, where you might get two weeks - and that's not a huge amount of time to be able to change something in your technique to make you better.”

“I guess that's the case with guys who are playing so much T20 cricket now - not having the opportunity to go back and work on their game with zero pressure.”