Finch to trust his basic instincts

Aaron Finch will captain on gut feel and won't be afraid to make spur of the moment decisions as he prepares for his international captaincy debut in the early hours of Monday.

Finch will lead Australia's Twenty20 side for the VB Tour of the UAE opener against Pakistan at the Dubai International Stadium on Monday (3am AEDT) with a side expected to contain four debutants.

The Australians will use their first look at the venue at tonight's training session under lights to finalise their playing XI, although Finch has already confirmed two bowlers will be making debuts: Cameron Boyce and Sean Abbott.

"We'll let the guys know (if they're playing at training) so they can really prepare well for the game," said Finch.

"It's important, especially the first game of the tour, to allow guys to prepare in specific roles for the game.

"Especially guys who are coming in quite new. That releases a bit of pressure on them so it's not unknown: Are they going to play? What role are they going to play?

"They turn up to the game knowing where they're batting and a rough idea of what role they'll be given with the ball."

Finch is also eager to get the tour off to a winning start, with three one-day internationals and two Test matches to follow.

"Whenever you start a tour with a win it helps the psychological effect for the rest of the tour," said Finch.

"(Pakistan have) got such a dangerous batting line-up, they've got hitters all through their innings. They've got guys who can take the game away from you really quick.

"It's really important that we take wickets the whole way through. If you take wickets consistently that's the best way to slow the run rate."

Finch is determined to keep his gameplan fluid in his first outing as the national captain, with his bowling rotations decided "about two balls" ahead of time,.

"I'm not someone who likes to go in with a plan of who's going to bowl the first over, the second, third over," said Finch.

"A lot of it is gut feel. If you become too predictable in Twenty20, teams adapt so quickly to that you can get hurt a little bit.

"So it's really important that you try to stay ahead of the game. At times that might be a spur of the moment decision.

"Someone's running up to bowl, you just have a feeling to change it up.

"The boys are all pretty comfortable with that. As long as they know that's how I operate.

"Sometimes they don't know what they're going to get and sometimes I don't know what they're going to get either until a few seconds before it happens."

Finch will play his 114th Twenty20 match but Boyce will be playing just his 14th, and Finch says the mix of new and old heads is important.

"We've got a lot of experience in the side. Someone like Hadds (wicketkeeper Brad Haddin) is such a big driver of the team," said Finch.

"There are enough guys around who have got a lot of experience to help out as well."