Although Clarke has already announced his retirement after the final test and Steve Smith has been anointed as the captain to take over starting from the tour of Bangladesh, I still stand by my original statement in the previous match thread, and that is it will be very interesting to see what happens if, like Matthew Hayden in 2005 and Mike Hussey in 2009, the very small chance that Clarke scores a century at The Oval (especially a big 150+) and whether or not the selectors will then try to talk him out of retirement and get him to play until end of summer (albeit with Smith as captain), or if approached with that situation from the selectors, whether Clarke will backfire and say something along the lines of "stuff you guys! You wanted me out of the side in the first place, and all this rubbish of trying to get me to prove my fitness during the World Cup, you got your wish....and now you want me back?"
