Clarke still fired by hunger for Ashes success


  • Cricket
  • Saturday, 04 Jul 2015

England's Alastair Cook in action. Action Images via Reuters / Philip Brown Livepic

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Michael Clarke could not have looked less like the "pup" of his nickname as he prepared to depart Australian shores for his seventh and final Ashes series.

It may have been the early hour of the May morning, the hangover from a summer battling with injury or the emotional scars from the death of Phillip Hughes but Clarke looked every day of his 34 years as he spoke to reporters at Sydney Airport.

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