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Despite the sport largely being shutdown since March, cricket has not been far from the mind of Australia's limited-overs captain Aaron Finch as he thinks ahead to the 2023 one-day World Cup campaign in India as well as the two T20 World Cups that are scheduled to be played before then.

It appears highly unlikely that the T20 World Cup set for this October and November in Australia will take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic with a range of options on the table as to when it could be moved to, from early next year to a 12-month delay to pushing it as far as 2022. Under the current schedule, India are due to host the 2021 T20 World Cup in the October-November of that year.

As things stand the next 50-over men's World Cup will take place in February and March of 2023 in India. Following Australia's semi-final exit in last year's tournament, when they turned their one-day form around significantly leading into the competition, there is already considerable thought going into how to prepare.

"I'm a cricket nuffy so you are always thinking about it, especially being captain and with what's coming up with the T20 World Cup, whenever that might be, and there's a couple of them and looking forward to the 2023 50-over World Cup in India," Finch told . "We are just in the processing of nutting out how we go about winning that, what we'll need to do down the track to be successful in those three tournaments.

"In the 50-over space it's about working back from that 2023 World Cup and really getting a detailed plan of how we think we'll have to win it, what's the structure of the side we'll need in India. Is it going to be two spinners, is it going to be an extra allrounder, and kind of work back from there."