Clarke enters era of responsibility
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
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Peter Roebuck, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, takes a look at Michael Clarke after his elevation to the Twenty20 captaincy.
As pale as a ghost, as fleet-footed as a dancer, as shy as a badger, as well-humoured as a skylark and blessed with a bulging heart, Michael Clarke has entered the most significant part of his cricket career. His rise was celebrated, his fall was regretted, and now comes a second, more sustained, surge - one that has brought a sense of stability and, with it, the responsibility of captaining the national team.
Shane Watson has been a bit quiet lately, but he tells the Courier-Mail he’s hitting the ball as well as he ever has. His last four Pura Cup scores are 15, 0, 0 and 0, but he got 70 for Queensland on Wednesday.
AAP reports that Brad Haddin and Adam Gilchrist can fit into the same one-day team after both were picked in the Chappell-Hadlee squad.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo