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The BCCI is yet to officially approve India’s Future Tours Programme for the coming cycle, from 2015 to 2023, due to their preference for one-off T20s in a bilateral series

Amol Karhadkar10-Jul-2014The BCCI is yet to officially approve India’s Future Tours Programme for the coming cycle, from 2014 to 2023, due to an issue over the number of T20s scheduled in bilateral series. The board is reluctant to play more than one T20 in a bilateral series.They had signed MoUs with all other boards over the number of bilateral series to be played over the next years on the sidelines of the ICC’s annual conference in Melbourne, but the number of matches, especially T20s, for each series is far from being final.India are supposed to play 47 T20s during the next FTP cycle, starting with the tour to Australia in December 2014 and culminating with New Zealand’s tour to India in January 2023. These 47 matches, excluding the ones during the World T20, are spread over 29 bilateral series.India’s bilateral matches from Dec 2014 to Jan 2023

Australia: 16 Tests, 33 ODIs, 9 T20s

England: 20 Tests, 22 ODIs, 4 T20s

South Africa: 16 Tests, 20 ODIs, 8 T20s

West Indies: 10 Tests, 15 ODIs, 4 T20s

Pakistan: 12 Tests, 30 ODIs, 11 T20s

Sri Lanka: 12 Tests, 20 ODIs, 6 T20s

New Zealand: 10 Tests, 35 ODIs, 4 T20s

Zimbabwe: 2 Tests, 9 ODIs, 1 T20

Bangladesh: 3 Tests, 6 ODIs

Excluding ICC events and Asia Cup

ODI and T20 numbers likely to change

However, 13 of those 29 series have India playing at least two T20s. The BCCI seniors’ wish to cut down on bilateral T20s might stem from a desire to maintain the appeal of the Indian Premier League. All the top players in India are seen in action for their respective franchises in at least 14 games per IPL season and a possible two to four additional games should the team make the playoffs.No one from the BCCI officialdom admits the fact as it is, though. Some of them stress on the fact that they don’t want “Indian players to play too many T20s, thus resulting in ODIs being completely redundant”. As a result, the BCCI will try and negotiate with seven of the 10 cricket boards for reducing the number of T20 fixtures.According to the existing FTP draft, every team barring England, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are slated to play two T20s against India in a series at least once over the next eight years. If BCCI succeeds in its negotiations, South Africa and Pakistan will be the biggest losers. While India is supposed to play two T20s in each of its four bilateral series with South Africa during the FTP window, Pakistan are pitted against India in 11 T20s spread over five series.If the other boards cede to BCCI’s request, then there could be a minor change to the number of ODIs to be played in the series. Pakistan’s itinerary is likely to remain unchanged, since Pakistan cricketers don’t feature in the IPL and the broadcasters are likely to put their foot down. A reduction in number of T20 games in an India series, especially at home, would result in significant loss of revenues for Cricket South Africa.The BCCI have traditionally been averse to playing T20 fixtures in bilateral series. Ever since India’s maiden T20 international in South Africa in December 2006, the Indian team has played only 52 T20s and 28 of them have been spread over five World T20s.Besides finalising the FTP of the national side, the BCCI is also planning to formulate its own schedules for the India A and India Under-19 sides. The consensus among the top management of the BCCI has been that as far as possible, the junior and the A sides should tour major cricketing opposition in the months before the national team’s tour to the country.The BCCI has already started implementing the theory with India A sides since last year. Fringe players toured South Africa A before India’s curtailed tour to South Africa in December 2013. Similarly, India A is touring Australia at the moment, five months ahead of the senior side’s four-Test series. The BCCI hierarchy wants the same policy extended to the Under-19 team in order to give more exposure to talented youngsters.

A rapid hundred from Nic Maddinson showed why he is among the best young batsmen in Australia, but also why he still has a way to go

Daniel Brettig in Bristol21-Jun-2013
ScorecardNic Maddinson peppered the boundary with regularity during his hundred•Getty ImagesBoom. A lofted straight drive clatters into the construction site at the Ashley Down Road End of the County Ground in Bristol. Whoosh. An attempt to repeat the shot next ball draws a wild swing and a near outside edge. It is 45 minutes before lunch on day one of a first-class match. This, more or less, is the existence of Nic Maddinson, arguably the most conspicuously talented of Australia’s young batsmen in England in 2013.On a day when Australia A clambered all over Gloucestershire, Maddinson’s ball-striking – and occasional ball-missing – left the most lasting impression. In a little more than three hours he crashed 181 from 143 balls, and spent just 34 balls hurtling from three figures to his final tally. Unbridled flair taking hold of modest bowling on an unexpectedly sunny Friday made for pleasant, light-hearted viewing: the Ashes are not at stake here for the tourists, nor any Division Two points at risk for the hosts.Less jaunty was Gloucestershire’s batting in response to Australia A’s 331 for 4. Jackson Bird and Ryan Harris are working back into fitness and form while Chadd Sayers has only one full first-class season behind him, but all were made to look piercing as the shadows lengthened. Sayers could count the wicket of his South Australian team-mate Michael Klinger among three victims, while Ashton Agar also nipped out the wicket of Dan Christian. Gloucestershire’s two Australians could manage only 14 runs between them.Earlier it had been possible simply to sit back and enjoy Maddinson’s spectacle, studded with 22 boundaries and a blink-inducing nine sixes. Yet amid the flurry of runs, Maddinson showed why he has some way to go before maturing as a batsman, and why at 21 he is still deciding what sort of player he will become: a Twenty20 blaster or a more rounded Test match contender.Regular visitors to Nevil Road could be forgiven for wondering aloud why a batsman so obviously gifted as Maddinson was not in the Ashes squad proper. Their answer can be provided by a record that shows that days like these do not come as the result of an easily repeatable approach to batting.The best Maddinson can offer is unforgettable, as a wonderfully free swing of the bat can send perfectly presentable deliveries soaring into the stand at square leg or bouncing percussively off the top of Gloucestershire’s new pavilion under construction. But he remains an unfinished article, vulnerable early on when the ball is new and the bowlers fresh, and prone to frequent lapses of concentration thereafter. In the early overs Maddinson struggled by comparison with the more obdurate Jordan Silk, beaten often outside off stump even if he was not aiming an almighty heave towards the cover fence.Later, well after a more experienced player would have settled in, Maddinson showed a tendency for the over eager, often following a pristinely struck boundary with a six, and then a swing-and-miss. In this he recalled nothing so much as the former Australia coach Bob Simpson’s line that Ian Healy “bats faster and faster until he gets out”. At one point Maddinson offered a vertical bat in some kind of outlandish ramp shot attempt that fell just out of reach of the field. Somewhat fittingly he was to be dismissed the ball after clouting his biggest six of all, skying Benny Howell to mid-off.Maddinson was certainly playing a game not familiar to his batting partners, two of whom have greater challenges ahead. After Silk offered no shot to be bowled by Gloucestershire’s Twenty20 signing Christian, Phillip Hughes strode out at No. 3. A few balls after his arrival Hughes faced up to Liam Norwell, who shares some quirks of a bowling action, if not a common level of skill or pace, with Andrew Flintoff. The Gloucestershire captain Klinger posting a leg slip. This show of 2009 Ashes nostalgia did not overtly perturb Hughes, and his dismissal cutting at Howell was a surprise.Usman Khawaja followed Hughes to the middle, and set about batting in an unhurried manner that did not suggest too much anxiety about not having topped 51 on tour so far and therefore not really enhancing his claims to an Ashes batting spot. He was comfortable without dominating, composed without looking commanding. Perhaps bigger runs will come in the tour matches against Somerset and Worcestershire, but it was difficult to imagine Khawaja being entirely thrilled when the captain Steve Smith – leading in place of a resting Brad Haddin – declared at tea.Smith’s decision granted his bowlers the chance of an afternoon run, and the pacemen were to find enough movement in the air and off the pitch to be dangerous. Sayers showed his command of line when Chris Dent shouldered arms and was bowled, and Harris coaxed a feather-edge from Dan Housego after he was swung around to the pavilion end in place of Bird, who was tidy in his opening spell.Sayers would go on to have Klinger taken at mid-on, and Gareth Roderick losing his off stump. Like Maddinson he is not in direct Ashes contention, but may be attracting the interest of several Championship sides with his consistency and knack for wickets. The left-arm spinner Agar had Christian snaffled at short midwicket and Fawad Ahmed, now eligible for his passport thanks to the passing of new legislation back in Australia, twirled through two overs before the close.

A round-up of the fifth round of Ranji Trophy’s Group B matches on December 9, 2012

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Dec-2012
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After the bowlers had shot out Odisha for 181 on the first day, four of the batsmen hit half-centuries to consolidate on Baroda’s advantage in Vadodara. Baroda are still missing both the Pathan brothers due to injury, but they didn’t let that affect them much as they steadily built up a solid total. Opener Aditya Waghmode made his fifth fifty-plus score in six matches, and added 125 for the second wicket with Abhimanyu Chauhan. After that their stand-in captain Ambati Rayudu and their wicketkeeper Pinal Shah, returning after a month’s absence, put on 102 for the fifth wicket to swell Baroda’s lead. With Odisha in second place on the points table, and Baroda in third, an outright win for Baroda will be a huge boost with the Ranji knockouts only a few rounds away.
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Uttar Pradesh’s batsmen built up a big score on the second day against Vidarbha. Arif Alam closed in on his second successive century and Piyush Chawla celebrated his Test call-up with an 85 that included three sixes to push UP past 500 in Nagpur. They might not declare overnight as Alam was still seven short of his hundred, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who was picked for India’s Twenty20 squad for the first time, keeping him company. It wasn’t the quickest of scoring, but UP will hope that the big first-innings total will put pressure on Vidarbha’s batsmen, who have already spent two full days on the field. UP are on top of the table despite having played a game less than their three closest chasers, and the three points from a first-innings lead should keep them in first place.
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Haryana bounced back from a dreadful start to their season with a surprise victory over Delhi in the last round, but they looked set to be second-best again this time as Maharashtra comfortably took the first-innings lead in Pune. Sangram Atitkar, who reached 80 twice this season without going on to make a hundred, completed his century this time, and his 177-run stand with Ankit Bawne, who made his third half-century in three innings, put Maharashtra in charge. Maharashtra had lost only three wickets and were already 45 ahead.

Mushfiqur Rahim and Nasir Hossain picked up important centuries to guide Bangladeshis to 377 for 7 when they declared. However, St Kitts & Nevis opener Shane Jeffers struck back with an attacking century of his own

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Sep-2014
ScorecardMushfiqur Rahim was more composed than Nasir Hossain, who made his first fifty-plus score since early June•WICB Media Photo/Randy BrooksMushfiqur Rahim and Nasir Hossain picked up important centuries on day two of Bangladesh’s warm-up game in Warner Park. But the day would not end well for the visitors after St Kitts & Nevis’ Shane Jeffers pummeled 118.Shivnarine Chanderpaul cruised to an unbeaten 70 as the bowlers struggled to put together a string of good overs. At stumps, the home side were 232 for 4 after Bangladesh had declared on 377 for 7.Mushfiqur was the first to reach the three-figure mark and remained not out on 106 off 170 balls, with eight fours and three sixes. Nasir managed his first fifty-plus score since early June, grinding out 100 off 153 balls. The pair added 191 runs for the seventh wicket but the moment Nasir got out, Mushfiqur placed the onus on his bowlers. But they did not respond well.Jeffers’ aggressive intent rattled them so much that by the time his opening partner Shaquille Martina was dismissed for 9, the total had swollen to 77 in 19 overs.Jeffers collected 22 fours and was finally dismissed for 118 off 131 balls, caught at deep midwicket by Mahmudllah off Shuvagata Hom. There was a wicket each for seamer Rubel Hossain and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam as well.

Glamorgan’s hopes of victory over Leicestershire in their LV= County Championship Division Two game were wrecked by the weather

24-May-2013
ScorecardGlamorgan’s hopes of victory over Leicestershire in their LV= County Championship Division Two game were wrecked by the weather, with only 55 minutes of play possible on the final day at Grace Road.Leicestershire, following on 300 runs behind, added another 49 runs for the loss of one wicket in 12.4 overs and were 182 for 2 when the game was abandoned as a draw with 28 overs remaining. Glamorgan collected 10 points from the match and Leicestershire five.Rain and strong winds throughout the morning meant the sides had to wait until 3.30pm before a start could be made, with Leicestershire on 133 for 1 and still 167 runs adrift.It took some sterling work from the groundstaff to make any play possible at all and when the game did start, it was so cold that 10 of the Glamorgan side wore woolly hats. Only Murray Goodwin had the traditional cricket cap on.Graham Wagg even kept his beanie on to bowl, but it was Michael Hogan who claimed the one wicket to fall. He had Greg Smith, 62 not out overnight, lbw for 70 to end a second wicket stand of 58.Australian Joe Burns hit three fours in his score of 18 while Ned Eckersley added 20 runs to his overnight 23, before heavy rain again swept in and the match was abandoned.

Hampshire’s slow left-armer Danny Briggs claimed four wickets to leave Division Two’s bottom side Derbyshire in trouble at the Ageas Bowl

Press Association02-Jun-2014
ScorecardDanny Briggs’ four wickets left Derbyshire struggling to avoid the follow on (file photo)•PA PhotosHampshire’s slow left-armer Danny Briggs claimed four wickets to leave Division Two’s bottom side Derbyshire in trouble at the Ageas Bowl. They finished the second day on 166 for 7, still 222 runs behind and, with no recognised batsmen left, facing an uphill struggle.The visitors had done a good job of polishing off the leaders’ innings in the morning as once Michael Bates was removed having made his half-century, Mark Footitt finished off the tail.With only 56 added to the overnight total Derbyshire at least had some momentum but the loss of Paul Borrington to Briggs just before lunch curtailed their progress. Sean Ervine had Wayne Madsen caught at slip and bad light forced an early tea with Stephen Moore still unbeaten on 48.Upon the resumption, the 23-year-old Briggs was back in the action, trapping Marcus North lbw but Kyle Abbott’s removal of Moore for 53 in similar fashion dealt the real blow.At 101 for 4, Derbyshire were in trouble but Scott Elstone and Alex Hughes fought back with a partnership of 59, which was eventually broken when Ervine took another good catch at slip to give Briggs his third victim.Gareth Cross fell cheaply to Abbott before the Briggs-Elstone combination accounted for Hughes to leave Derbyshire still needing 73 runs to avoid the follow on. Briggs closed with 4 for 29 off 22 overs with his sights set on eclipsing his career-best figures of 6 for 45.

West Indies allrounder Dwayne Smith has joined Perth Scorchers for the upcoming Big Bash League season

Renaldo Matadeen07-Dec-2013West Indies allrounder Dwayne Smith has joined Perth Scorchers for the upcoming Big Bash League season, becoming the second international player to sign for the side following the announcement that South African bowler Alfonso Thomas would be rejoining them.”I’m really happy to have signed with the Perth Scorchers – they look to have a great squad of players with a good mixture of youth and experience. The BBL is a tournament all players want to be involved, in so I’m really looking forward to joining the lads in Perth and making an impact,” Smith said. “Hopefully I can get the side off to a good start at the top of the order and continue on my good form from the recent Champions League in India. Perth is a beautiful city, so hopefully I can experience a bit of what it has to offer in between the cricket.”Smith has struggled to cement his spot in the West Indies team, despite being a crucial part of the Mumbai Indians side that won the 2013 IPL and Champions League Twenty20, for which he was the Player of the Tournament after making 223 runs at an average of 55.75 and a strike rate of 142.94.”I want to be part of the West Indies team that defends the T20 crown next year (in Bangladesh),” he said. “I’m looking at the 2015 World Cup, so I want to make a big impression here.”Scorchers coach Justin Langer described Smith as a welcome addition to the side, citing his stunning form in the Twenty20 matches over the last 12 months, as well as the fact that he would be available for the entire BBL season.”Dwayne is a fantastic batsman, he’s a brilliant fieldsman and he can bowl some overs, so he’s a great addition to the Scorchers,” Langer said. “He was very keen to get back to BBL so it was a pretty easy negotiation. Dwayne was high on the list, because of the challenges you have with securing overseas players.”Smith has represented Sussex, Deccan Chargers, Mumbai Indians and Barbados at T20 level. In addition, he also played for New South Wales in the BBL in 2009-10.Shaun Marsh, who also announced his contract extension with the Scorchers, was equally as pleased with his team’s new signing.”I have had the pleasure of watching him play in the IPL and for West Indies over the last few years and he certainly brings a lot of excitement to the game with bat, ball and in the field,” Marsh said. “He’s a really aggressive player and I think we will work really well together at the top.”

There are plenty of coaches around the continent who deserve huge credit for what they've achieved over the past year – but who's the best of the lot?

As another gruelling European football season draws to a close, those managers who have guided their teams through successful campaigns can finally sit back and admire their work, while others will still have their eyes on the silverware that will come within their grasp in the coming weeks.

There have been storylines galore, with names written into club folklore and history made across the continent. But who are the outstanding coaches of the 2022-23 season who deserve to be singled out for special praise?

GOAL ranks the 21 managers around Europe who have done the very best job…

Getty Images21Marco Rose (RB Leipzig)

It was by no means an easy season for Marco Rose and RB Leipzig, but he has done very well to steady the ship and guide the Roten Bullen to a third-placed league finish, the DFB-Pokal final and the Champions League knockout stages having taken over in September with his hometown club in 11th place in the Bundesliga.

AdvertisementGetty Images20Raffaele Palladino (Monza)

Raffaele Palladino has been a revelation at newly-promoted Monza having only been promoted from youth team manager in September. At just 39, he has guided the newly-promoted club to a mid-table finish in Serie A, recording victories over the likes of Juventus, Inter and champions Napoli along the way, while enjoying two lengthy unbeaten streaks that gave them huge momentum.

Their success has been propelled – and indeed bankrolled – by owner Silvio Berlusconi.

Getty19Gary O'Neil (Bournemouth)

Bournemouth were pretty much every pundit and fan's favourites for relegation from the Premier League at the start of the season, and eyebrows were raised when the club sacked Scott Parker and appointed the inexperienced Gary O'Neil as caretaker just four games in

He earned the job full-time after a strong showing, but the Cherries began to slip back down the table and appeared doomed with 10 games to go. However, a late-season resurgence saw Bournemouth pull clear of the relegation zone with time to spare.

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Getty Images18Jagoba Arrasate (Osasuna)

It has already been a memorable campaign for Osasuna, who reached the Copa del Rey final with a squad made up of predominantly academy products. Now, European football is within their grasp.

Having guided the club to mid-table finishes each season since their promotion back to La Liga in 2019, Jagoba Arrasate has pushed on in 2022-23 and his side currently occupies a Europa Conference League place with one game to go.

Weston McKennie has admitted that his loan spell at Leeds did not go as well as he expected and feels he "let certain people down".

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McKennie joined Leeds on loan last seasonCould not prevent club from being relegatedMidfielder is shining again at JuventusWHAT HAPPENED?

The United States midfielder was loaned to the Elland Road club in January to aid in their bid to avoid relegation to the Championship last season. He made 19 league appearances but did not have the desired effect, registering just one assist as they finished second-bottom and dropped down to the second tier.

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McKennie told in Italy: "I didn’t have the best performances. I felt I let certain people down. But at the end of the day, when I came back, I think it was important for me in general to have an experience like that, to have that happen to me at this moment of my career, because when I came back it felt like I was coming back here for the first time again. When I first came to Juventus, nobody knew who I was, everybody doubted me, everybody was against me, and I think it was important for me because it put chips back on my shoulder. That’s when I perform best and prove that I can do it and that I belong, so it was nice to come back and have that feeling again."

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McKennie has been given a key role by coach Massimiliano Allegri since he moved back to Juventus during the summer. He has played in all 12 of their Serie A games so far this season and remains an important part of the United States national team, playing all 90 minutes as they beat Trinidad and Tobago in the CONCACAF Nations League quarter-final first-leg.

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Getty ImagesWHAT NEXT FOR MCKENNIE?

McKennie had to withdraw from the USMNT team before the second-leg of the Nations League tie due to an injury, however, and it has not yet been confirmed whether or not he will be fit for Juve's headline Serie A showdown against Inter on Sunday.

At the end of a tumultuous summer, Michael Clarke admitted he spoke of a World Cup victory based on skill over emotion as a way of convincing himself that he could endure the toll of this most draining season

Daniel Brettig at the MCG29-Mar-2015At the end of a summer when Australia went through the unspeakable grief of bidding farewell to Phillip Hughes, Michael Clarke admitted he spoke of a World Cup victory based on skill over emotion as a way of convincing himself that he could endure the toll of this most draining season.Clarke spoke fully and frankly of the longest of summers after lifting the Cup in front of a world record MCG crowd and signing off from limited-overs cricket with an emphatic win over New Zealand. But it was clear how much it had stretched Clarke, from the emotional tumult around the death of Hughes to running battles with the selection panel over his fitness to lead.”The summer has been different because it’s not just about the physical side of the game,” he said. “I think we’ve all experienced the mental side and the emotion of what’s happened, and I guess that’s why the boys deserve even more credit, to be able to continue to get up every single day and want to perform and help the team have success with that emotion that runs through your body.”I think through the whole World Cup, I made it very clear that it was going to be skill, not emotion that won us the World Cup, and I think a lot of the things I’ve said in press conferences have actually been for myself. I’m saying it out loud so I can hear it myself, and I think that’s probably one of the main things I’ve been saying, skill over emotion will win the World Cup for us, and I think I’ve needed to hear that, as well. I’ve needed to say it out loud because it has been emotional, there’s no doubt about it.”To fight my backside off and work as hard as I possibly have to get back into the team, number one, after surgery, and then I guess to deal with what we’ve all dealt with over the last few months and to win a World Cup in front of your home fans, it’s taken amazing discipline from all the players, a lot of hard work, and it’s a fitting reward, like I say, for the pain everyone has gone through.”Clarke said he had found it harder to deal with the gap left in his life by his friend and “little brother” as the summer went on, spending a lot of time speaking with the Hughes family, whom he had shepherded through the days before and after the 25-year-old’s death.”Hughesy is thought about and spoken about on a daily basis,” Clarke said. “I think probably the last couple of months for me personally, it’s probably been harder than when he first passed away. I’ve been in regular contact with his sister and his family. And I know they would have been watching tonight. I guess that’s what makes it so special, that we are still thinking about him. We are still talking about him, and we always will.”Like I say, I won’t play another game, I certainly won’t play a Test match without his Test number on my heart, and I’ll wear this black armband for the rest of my career. You know, we’ve spoken about it as a team. We believe we played this World Cup with 16 players in our squad, and that will continue for the rest of my career, that’s for sure.”A little more than a day after he had announced his ODI retirement, Clarke was convinced the team was in good hands. Marshalled by the coach Darren Lehmann and Clarke’s likely successor Steven Smith, they can be expected to carry on in the same aggressive vein that typified their success in this World Cup. Certainly Clarke had no doubt he was leaving the side in better shape than when he first led it in 2011.

I think the team is in a great place. I think that talent will not just be talent, it’ll be consistent performance. Like I said, I think it’s the right time for me to go now

“Now I know it’s the right time,” he said. “There’s no such thing as fairytales in sport but that’s as close as it gets for me, not only to win a World Cup but to win in front of your home fans. There was a lot of expectation, a lot of added pressure, the fact we were playing in Australia in front of our home fans. I think the boys soaked that up from day one and loved every minute of it.”We’ve worked really hard. Even today once we bowled New Zealand out, six or seven of the guys went to the nets for a hit in the lead-up to our batting innings just to make sure they were as well prepared as they possibly could be and ready to walk out and chase those 180 runs. It shows the discipline and the dedication to wanting the team to have success. I’m extremely proud and really happy with how the day panned out.”I think the team is in a great place. I think they’ll continue to have success. I think they’ll continue to get better. I think that talent will not just be talent, it’ll be consistent performance. I think, like I said, I think it’s the right time for me to go now. I think this team is ready to move forward and continue to have a lot of success all around the world.”As for the timing of his retirement announcement, something a few had questioned on match eve, Clarke gave a simple and logical explanation. In doing so he illustrated how much attention he has paid to the media cycle during his career, both its bouquets and brickbats.”Because I think tomorrow’s press is going to be about the team, and if I announced it tonight, then tomorrow’s press wouldn’t have been about the team,” Clarke said. “I’ve probably taken one day of media rather than a week of it. I’m hoping the next week is full of positive things about every single player in that change room and what they’ve achieved in this tournament. But you guys will dictate that.”