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The Australian’s Peter Lalor writes that Michael Clarke is tweeting in a Cricket Australia meeting about tweeting. Shane Warne is not in the meeting about tweeting, but is tweeting about the meetings and suggests to his friend that he should call a meeting about calling the next meeting. Clarke likes that and notes with tongue-in-tweet that Warnie always did like a good meeting. The vice-captain then tweets that: “The youngsta is falling asleep in these meetings” – the meetings about tweeting, that is. “The youngsta” in this case is Clarke’s…

Michael Clarke insists his promotion to No. 4 makes no difference to his game despite the added responsibility of moving one step closer to the top of the order

Michael Clarke needs to rediscover his form in the shortest version of the game

Australia’s Test vice-captain Michael Clarke believes Pakistan’s fast bowlers will be a handful during the upcoming Test series, on the evidence of their strong performances in the two Twenty20s at Edgbaston

Australia will bat first for the fifth time in the series after Ricky Ponting won the toss at Lord’s, where Michael Clarke pulled out due to overnight back soreness

Australia’s batting had been their weakest link in the series against England but with captain Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke hitting format The Oval, they posted a big enough total to avoid a whitewash. David Hopps says in the Guardian that Ponting’s innings shows that it is still too early to write him off.Ponting’s 92 from 93 balls was an ideal retort to the suggestion that Australia, having lost the series, were in danger of a 5-0 whitewash and that his own appetite to lead Australia into next year’s World…

Australia’s batting struggles continued at The Oval before Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke steadied the innings and built a solid platform by the halfway mark

SYDNEY, May 24, 2010 (AFP) – - Michael Clarke was Monday retained as skipper of Australia’s Twenty20 squad for July’s series with Pakistan in England despite his below-par batting performances in T20 cricket.

Australia’s selectors have forgiven Michael Clarke for his poor form in Twenty20, naming him to captain Australia against Pakistan in England in July

Michael Clarke believes he might need to rediscover the attacking approach of his youth to become a successful Twenty20 batsman