Former Australia’s captain Michael Clarke. — AFP/File
Former Australian captain Michael Clarke lambasted the nationwide selectors for resting key gamers for the ultimate match of the one-day worldwide (ODI) collection towards Pakistan, saying they didn’t care about shedding the competitors.
Pakistan on Sunday defeated Australia within the three-match ODI collection of their house for the primary time since 2002 because the Males in Inexperienced raced to a commanding eight-wicket victory within the decider.
The house facet was lacking skipper Pat Cummins, alongside Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne within the collection decider, whereas Mitch Marsh and Travis Head missed the complete collection on account of paternal leaves.
Notably, Australia prioritised the Border-Gavaskar Trophy — a five-match Take a look at collection towards India, scheduled to start out 11 days after the third ODI towards Pakistan.
Clarke, who led Australia to the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2015 glory, was upset with how the hosts handled the ODI collection.
“I’m just a bit confused. So 11 days between now and the first Test [in Perth], why can’t the Aussie boys who are part of this Test series play in the one-dayer?” he mentioned on his radio present on Monday.
“If Australia had won the first two games, then you can understand why they rest their big fish, but it was [the] series on the line,” he added.
Clarke further blamed Australia for “not caring” about the outcome of the ODI series, a format, which is downhill due to packed franchise cricket in a calendar year. “You’ll be able to’t count on the followers to need to come and watch one-day cricket.”
He added: “We are bagging one-day cricket. No-one is turning up, hasn’t got the interest. I feel like we obviously don’t care about losing that series. If you’re not going to care, we’re not going to care.”
