Former Australia captain Michael Clarke shared his uncertainty about why Team India’s bowlers were cramping during the second ODI on Thursday, October 23, at the Adelaide Oval as well. Put into bat, India posted 264/9, with Rohit Sharma top-scoring with 73 as well. During the bowling, all Indian pace bowlers, including Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, and Mohammed Siraj, were seen cramping throughout the game as well.

On Friday, October 24, speaking on the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast, Clarke said: “Well, I don’t know what’s, yeah, I don’t know what’s happening, ’cause Perth wasn’t that hot either. It was raining, so I’m, I’m, I’m not sure, unless they trained extremely hard the day before, maybe. I’m not sure. I don’t know what happened there. But yeah, obviously, you know, you’ve only got three one-days and then you go straight into the T20s. I think, look, this Indian team in all three formats is very good.”

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“They’re not playing their best cricket. Conditions are very, very different, opposite to what they get in India, and they’ve had the worst of conditions. Not making excuses for him, but they’re certainly missing their two best bowlers and, in my opinion, one of their best players in Hardik Pandya. So Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have been missed, there’s no doubt about it. I think if those two are fit and healthy, they would come straight back into this Indian team and make a big difference. But still, Australia is outplaying India at the moment,” he shared.

During the same podcast, Michael Clarke also opined on Indian captain Shubman Gill, saying that there was not much more Gill could do as the team has been playing below par.

“I say, I think they’re 30, 30-odd runs short, so there’s not much more he can do. No, I think Shubman’s one of those captains that the more he does it, the better he’s going to get. And a lot of the time with captaining, it’s learning to back your gut feeling or go with your instinct. And he’s got senior players around, and obviously Rohit’s there and Virat’s there to go to if he needs something,” he shared.

“But I think it’s having the confidence to, if you feel something, go with it. A lot of the time, you’re going to get that wrong, but then you make a quick change. So as long as he continues to believe in himself. And again, like his batting, I think his batting continues to get better and better. He’s still so young. He’s now Test captain, One-Day captain. I think tactically, he’ll continue to get better the more he does it,” Michael Clarke concluded.