The Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke (34)has announced his
retirement from Test cricket after their embarrassing Ashes loss and the
fourth Ashes Test. However, the skipper will be playing in the last
Test.
"I want to play the last Test at The Oval and give it one more crack. the time is right," Michael Clarke said.
Michael Clarke will play at The Oval, his 115th and final Test match starting on Aug 20,2015
On Saturday August 08,2015,England won the Trent Bridge Test by an innings and 78 runs to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series and regain the Ashes.
Clarke is understood to have told his teammates before play began at Trent Bridge this morning that his reign as skipper is over and, following his retirement from one-day cricket after this year's World Cup win, he is also walking away from the Test game.
Michael Clarke has become the first Australian in more than a century to lose four successive Ashes series in England
Michael Clarke averages just 16.71 in eight innings this Ashes, with a top score of 38 and, as a consequence, his career Test average has dropped below 50 -- widely considered to be the mark of an all-time great.
Michael Clarke, Australia's 43rd Test captain, will leave the game as the country's fourth-highest run-scorer behind Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh
Michael Clarke's Test Career began in 2004 with a stunning hundred on debut against India in Bangalore.Australia went on to win the series, the first time it had conquered India in India since 1969
Michael Clarke followed that up by scoring a hundred in his first Test on Australian soil against New Zealand later that year making him the only Australian to score a century on both home and away debuts
In 114 Tests, Michael Clarke registered 28 centuries including a top score of 329 not out against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2012. Michael Clarke followed up that innings with 210 in Adelaide, joining Sir Donald Bradman and Wally Hammond as the only players to have made a triple century and a double century in the same series.
"I want to play the last Test at The Oval and give it one more crack. the time is right," Michael Clarke said.
Michael Clarke will play at The Oval, his 115th and final Test match starting on Aug 20,2015
On Saturday August 08,2015,England won the Trent Bridge Test by an innings and 78 runs to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series and regain the Ashes.
Clarke is understood to have told his teammates before play began at Trent Bridge this morning that his reign as skipper is over and, following his retirement from one-day cricket after this year's World Cup win, he is also walking away from the Test game.
Michael Clarke has become the first Australian in more than a century to lose four successive Ashes series in England
Michael Clarke averages just 16.71 in eight innings this Ashes, with a top score of 38 and, as a consequence, his career Test average has dropped below 50 -- widely considered to be the mark of an all-time great.
Michael Clarke, Australia's 43rd Test captain, will leave the game as the country's fourth-highest run-scorer behind Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh
Michael Clarke's Test Career began in 2004 with a stunning hundred on debut against India in Bangalore.Australia went on to win the series, the first time it had conquered India in India since 1969
Michael Clarke followed that up by scoring a hundred in his first Test on Australian soil against New Zealand later that year making him the only Australian to score a century on both home and away debuts
In 114 Tests, Michael Clarke registered 28 centuries including a top score of 329 not out against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2012. Michael Clarke followed up that innings with 210 in Adelaide, joining Sir Donald Bradman and Wally Hammond as the only players to have made a triple century and a double century in the same series.
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