Mark Taylor lauds Michael Clarke’s triple ton – Cricket News Update
Former Australian Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Anthony-Taylor-c74540, lauded Michael Clarke's triple ton, adding that captaincy is bringing the best out of the 30-year-old.
Pup scored a defiant maiden triple hundred in the ongoing second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, putting his team in pole position to take a 2-0 lead in the four-match series. The Kangaroo leader batted for almost two days, spending a total of 609 minutes on the crease in his marathon of 329.
Since taking over the captaincy, Clarke has excelled with the bat where he has managed to score 902 runs from his 9 Test outings, averaging a healthy 64.42 as compared with his overall career average which stands at 48.65. Also during this time, he has notched up 4 hundreds against all top oppositions.
After bettering his previous best score of 168, Clarke went onto make an astonishing triple ton on his home turf at SCG stood in appreciation of a memorable feet achieved by the middle-order batsman.
Taylor, who himself scored a sublime 334 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in 1998, said that elevating Clarke to lead the side has certainly made him produce some of his best cricket.
"You earn respect by the gestures and what you do in the game, the way you play the game," http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 really is.
With Clarke declaring on an unbeaten 329, he missed out on opportunity of surpassing the 400 made by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brian-Charles-Lara-c48471. However, Taylor praised Pups unselfish nature for the team’s own good.
“He could've achieved both goals (getting to 400 and bowling out India) but what he wanted to say is 'yes, I want to do well myself, every player does and that's human nature, but I want to captain a side that's going to win first' and that's a very important thing to have" added Taylor.
The Men In Blue ended another disappointed day on 114 for 2 with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 all set to resume their innings on an make or break Day 4, played on January 6.
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