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Michael Clarke retiring from ODI Cricket

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Just said tomorrow will be his last ODI. Right time IMO. Good on him, he's had a great career and will now be able to focus on Tests. Steve Smith a lock for captain?
 


Yep, right time for him to go in ODIs. Focus on Test Cricket from here.
 
Just said tomorrow will be his last ODI. Right time IMO. Good on him, he's had a great career and will now be able to focus on Tests. Steve Smith a lock for captain?

Don't really care about next captain now. Just want this one to go out with a World Cup and worry about the future after it.
Well done Clarkey!!!
 

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Clearly the right move.

Will be interesting to see how the ODI side is reconstituted after the World Cup.

I think our next ODI fixture is six months down the track? After the Ashes?

You could, theoretically, build a ODI XI out of the current squad to go through all the way to the next World Cup. Apart from a new keeper and probably one more batsman. The current openers and Smith are all young enough, along with three all-rounders somewhere in the middle, and then the emerging pacemen.

Finch
Warner
Smith
TBD
Maxwell
Marsh
Faulkner
Wade
Pattinson/Cummins
Starc
Hazlewood
 
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Retires from ODI cricket after leading us to a win in the world cup final, retires from test cricket after leading us to a winning Ashes series in England :thumbsu:

Unless he is injured i doubt he will retire from test cricket in 6 months time.

This is easily the right move, hopefully Watto retires as well. The ODI game has moved past them both.
 

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I think our next ODI fixture is six months down the track? After the Ashes?

August 27th vs Ireland, September 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 13th vs England.

Surprised he isnt getting flack for announcing it pre final and not after

Right decision but question the timing of the announcement. Couldn't he have waited after the final?

Doesn't look like a quitter if we lose and adds team motivation (not that they need more).
 
Right call - won't be around for the next WC, the rigours of throwing yourself around in the field (something you do less of at 2nd slip in tests)

Next step is to find a No 4 - someone who can recover an innings from early wickets, or accelerate scoring if required.

Bailey isn't making enough runs - god i hope they don't bat watson at 4....

Looking at some run scorers - perhaps Burns might get a gig
 
Right decision but question the timing of the announcement. Couldn't he have waited after the final?
This question wouldn't be asked of anyone but Clarke IMO.
 
The story on Foxsports is Clarke's retirement "bombshell"!!

Yeah, real bombshell. Gosh, I'm sure nobody on the planet saw this one coming.....

Be interesting to see who follows him, or who is made to follow him.
 
Michael Clarke should have waited until well after the World Cup final had been played before he announced his retirement from one-day international cricket, says Kevin Hillier.

He believes that the 33-year-old revealing that his 245th ODI match on Sunday against New Zealand would be his last was selfish and unnecessary.

“I think it’s a good move but if I can be honest I think he should have left it and announced it after tomorrow’s game,” said Hillier on SEN radio.

“There is no need to make it about him now, let’s make it about the team and winning the game then make your announcement after that.

“It’s got to be about the team and not the individual at this stage of the game.”

After debuting against England in Adelaide in 2003 the current one-day captain has made 7,907 runs at 44.42 and taken 57 wickets.

"I think it's the right time for me and the Australian team," he told reporters on Saturday.

"I made the decision 48 hours ago when I asked myself if I thought I would be playing in the next World Cup and I said to myself that I don't think I will be."

Clarke made it clear that he believed in-form batsmen and recent interim Test skipper Steve Smith would assume the position after he departed instead of George Bailey.

"Smithy has certainly matured as a player and a person," Clarke said.

"His form is because of his hard work and I am not surprised that he is scoring as many runs as he is because he's training extremely hard and he's worked hard on his game.

"Smithy is certainly someone who will be spoken about."
 

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