Clarke coy on whitewash

Australia delighted captain Michael Clarke by showing significant resilience to turn a losing position in Melbourne into another crushing Ashes victory after all.

Clarke’s team have unexpectedly dominated England throughout this winter’s series and duly went 4-0 up with an eight-wicket win at the MCG.

Clarke was not about to fuel conjecture about the possibility of completing a 5-0 whitewash in Sydney next week, after Chris Rogers (116) and Shane Watson (83no) had made light of a target of 231.