Bucking Beads
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Steve Smith has shown very little as a Captain so far. He still has a lot of learning to do. WHy would Clarke bother coming back to just be a batsmen? He deserves a bit more respect than to be treated like that IMO.
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Michael Clarke vs the World
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You try captaining on those roads.
Bucking Beads
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If the pitches are so flat it wouldn't have hurt to try something different. Any other excuses?? Smith will make a decent captain but he seems very much a Punter type of Captain to me.
TheMase
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I would like to Smith to serve an apprenticeship under Clarke, no doubt he could learn a lot from Clarke, if nothing else then from a tactical point of view.
If they really want to make a move, then do it after the Ashes then tell Clarke up front that he captains until after the Ashes with Smith as his VC and after that the team will be transitioning to Smith with Clarke more than welcome to keep playing as a batsman from that point should he choose (obviously if form continues to support his selection).
Bucking Beads
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I think Clarke will retire after next summer anyway. Smith will be the next Captain there is just no need to boot Clarke out early to make it happen.
Clarke said he wants to play the 2019 world cup
He's not serious about that.
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Try what, exactly?
He's said he was going for the draw in Melbourne. And would you have wanted to set India less than 350 in more than a day in Sydney?
Bucking Beads
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Clarke said he wants to play the 2019 world cup
I think we all know that won't be happening.
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Matthew Hayden AM, if you don't mind.
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Captaining for the draw was the easy way out. I'm not saying it wasn't the right thing to do, but it was the easy way out.
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I've still never evidence of Clarke doing anything as stupid as what Warner did when he demanded Rahane 'speak English' when he was chatting with his partner. To defend it was even more laughable.
Remove Clarke (and Haddin) from this side, and Warner is probably vice captain and ready to step in should Smith return to his form of 12> months ago.
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The real question is this: Did it work?
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Well the batsman Smith was told not to talk to was 14 not out at the time in the first session of the match and went on to make 2 centuries in the match, and outscored Smith and Clarke combined easily. Pakistan won the match by a record margin for their country in test history and it was Australia's third largest defeat by runs in their history. I would suggest it didn't work
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But did Smith work harder and step up the next chance he got?
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Got a duck the next chance he had... Went on to make 97 in the second innings though
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A simplistic view of "aggressive captaincy = good, defensive captaincy = bad" is stupid.
Under Smith we won the Border/Gavaskar trophy and didn't lose a Test.
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ill take those questions separately as they arent related.
Did it work? the pakistani cricket team dominated us.
The next chance smithy got he registered a duck
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That sounds suspiciously like the plan, did not work?
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But it was an attacking piece of captaincy, which means it was brilliant and excellent.
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His voice needs to break first. That's why he is desperate to keep playing cricket until he finishes puberty.
Clarke loved being the "main mourner" following the Hughes death, a lot of people share my view on this. And yeah of
God help us all if that happens.
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I reckon it would be fun to see Warner accuse the opposition captain of being a cheat and then belting him after losing the toss
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That's the point though. Nobody is saying that Clarke hasn't shown himself to be an ordinary bloke, but just look at the alternatives!
