Well done Clarke, great innings, but I still can't warm to the guy. Thats probably due to him getting a gog in the team so easy when he was averaging low 30s in 1st class cricket. He's always been the chosen one & no matter what he did, or more to the point didn't do, he always held his spot. He was dropped once but got his spot back when there were 4 or 5 others with stronger claims, including Brad Hodge. Even this time last year he was in terrible form but was made captain.
One thing I had no problem with was the run in with Katich. Why would a bloke want to sppend 5-6 hours in changerooms with blokes you spend most of the year with when he could be spending it with Lara Bingle? I know what i'd prefer. Seemed to me that Katich would want it to go on because he wasn't an international player for a couple of months as he wasn't in the one day team.
Disapointed he didn't go for the record, he won't get another chance as good considering the match is only halfway through & Australia are in such a dominate position. I am happy that Lara still has it though, a record such as that should stay with an all time great, gives it a certain prestige.
On another note how can the Test change like it did? 13 wickets fall in the first 5 hours & 1 in the next 10. I know cricket is a funny game but thats just taking the piss. India will be 5-6 down if exposed form means anything or the pitch might've just flattened out something terrible & they'll be 0-200 at stumps.