Mild-mannered Clark tells his story

Stuart Clark showed some rare annoyance when he was left out of Australia's World Cup squad. In an interesting interview with Patrick Carlyon in the Sydney Morning Herald, Clark tries to convince us he is a typical, angry, wild fast bowler.

Clark goes against the type. He's not nutty, even if he claims to have a temper. His evidence is weak, buried in hazy tales of red cards on soccer fields as a teenager, or snippets of on-field abuse that fellow players cannot recall. He says he can unleash a rage that "just comes flying out", but no one seems to have witnessed it.