Clarke: An honour to captain the Australian team

Clarke said he felt for fans who had bought day-four and day-five tickets, but had missed out on the action. “So that to me means it hasn’t hit me yet”.

Australia won the match by 405 runs.

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Clarke’s captaincy, however, remained as strong as ever, highlighted by the fact the 34-year-old enforced the follow-on for the first time in his career.

“Disappointing to have my character questioned – those who know me realise how ridiculous Warner’s excuse for hitting me sounds but that’s his choice to try and justify his actions”. “We need to just go out there and express ourselves, and if there’s one form of the game where we can turn things around, it’s T20 cricket”.

“I am proud of the way we played here, showing grit and determination and playing cricket the Australian way”, Clarke told reporters.

Rain halted play for more than two hours but merely delayed Australia’s victory.

“It was an unbelievable series – none of them went five days”. Clarke has represented Australia in 115 Tests and captained his side in 47 of them. “I’d like to see cricket played in all countries”. “I think that’s the way the game should be played – and, most importantly, I want to see a victor and a loser”, the departing skipper said.

Lehmann was delighted with his side’s display at The Oval but he felt England were deserving winners of the series overall.

Broad added: “As soon as a team has taken the initiative in a series, the other team hasn’t been able to grab it back, and I think that’s probably because the teams are quite similar”. “Of course, we’d love to be sitting here at 4-1 rather than 3-2…” You can kind of understand in a little way. They have shown what a good team they are and to have beaten them three times is a credit to our guys.

Andrew Strauss is keen to see Ian Bell continue his Test career – providing the batsman still has the desire.

Cook said he hoped the emotion of the occasion had got to senior batsman and that he would be stay around and help take England to the top of the world rankings. “It’s been tough and it always will be, but it’s nice to have worn it for my last Test match”.

“I’m pretty exhausted and looking forward to a break”, he said on BBC’s Test Match Special. What you say in an interview now might not be what you really believe deep down. I have not heard exactly what Belly has said.