Kiwi spearhead Trent Boult has dismissed Aaron Finch more times than any other bowler in the Aussie's limited-overs career
'He's had my number': The man between Finch and a good night
For all the secrecy over how modern T20 teams might seek to exploit particular match-ups, there is little mystery over who Aaron Finch will be staring at when he faces up in Australia's World Cup opener on Saturday.
Like a doorman at a Kings Cross club, Trent Boult will be standing between Finch and a good night.
"I'd be very surprised if he wasn't," the smiling Aussie opener said on the eve of Australia's World Cup opener against New Zealand about the prospect of their new-ball rendezvous at the SCG.
Even the cagey Kiwi skipper Kane Williamson was not trying to hide it.
"(Boult) will be bowling with the new ball and I suppose Finchy will be opening. So there's a likelihood they'll come across each other," which was about as much as Williamson was willing to give away in Friday’s press conference.
Of all the bowlers Finch has faced in his almost 600-game white-ball career, no fast bowler has dismissed him more times than Boult (eight), the most recent of those coming in the Far North Queensland ODI series last month that hastened the 35-year-old's retirement from the format.