Aaron Finch will represent KKR in IPL 2022.© BCCI/IPL
Aaron Finch’s latest Indian Premier League (IPL) expedition is with Kolkata Knight Riders and when the franchise held a Q&A session for him on Twitter, it was no surprise that food was one of the topics he was asked about. “Eilish Maach”, or Hilsa, is a favorite among Bengalis, and former England cricketer and commentator Isa Guha was quick to ask the Australian limited-overs commander if he’d tried. Guha is of Bangladeshi descent herself and her parents moved to the UK from Kolkata.
“No, I don’t have Ish. But I hear it’s Bengali New Year soon and I’m looking forward to trying it then,” Finch said in his answer to Guha’s question.
“No, I haven’t had it. I know it’s in your recipe book so I’m looking forward to trying it here and then trying to make it when I get home. That will be much less successful I know sure, but if I follow that recipe to a T, I’m sure I can get close,” he said.
Finch recently joined the KKR squad after the Australian tour of Pakistan came to an end.
He joined the Australian Test captain, Pat Cummins, on the team. Cummins had returned earlier, while Finch stayed behind for the ODI and T20I series in Pakistan.
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Cummins led Australia to a 1-0 victory in the Test series, while Pakistan came out on top in the ODIs to win the series 2-1. Australia triumphed in the one-off T20 International (T20I), with Finch scoring a half-century.
Finch was brought in by KKR as a replacement for Alex Hales, who withdrew from the tournament due to bubble fatigue.
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