![]() ![]() In their own unique ways, Clarke, his now-menacing paceman Mitchell Johnson and David Warner all put the resultant scars on display in Brisbane. It’s why Australia hasn’t taken one off them in six years. It’s why they’ve barely lost a Test series in the last half-decade. ![]() ![]() England are hemmed in but far from beaten and they know an escape route or two. It spoke of a captain looking out to the horizon rather than one who can’t help but keep one eye on the carnage slowly disappearing in the rear-view mirror.Īustralia should take satisfaction from the opening encounter, but they merely won a battle at Brisbane. Those of a gentler disposition might also view Cook’s statement as an affront but in admonishing his opposite number it also masked a counter-punch. “On the pitch it’s pretty much war, isn’t it?” said the England captain, Alastair Cook, when queried as to the appropriateness of Clarke’s remarks. For all the calculation and assuredness of Clarke’s media performances there’s no hiding that broad Strine, especially not in the heat of an Ashes Test where its blunt cadence draws a symbolic battle line of its own. ![]() Face up.” It’s hardly “how’s your wife and my kids?” but Michael Clarke’s sledge on Jimmy Anderson is no less memorable or quotable. ![]()
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