Australian Skipper Michael Clarke To Retire From ODIs After World Cup Final:

Australian skipper Michael Clarke has declared that the World Cup Final against New Zealand on Sunday will be the last time he plays ODI cricket. Clarke made the declaration at the prematch press conference on the eve of the Final in Melbourne:

"Tomorrow will be my last ODI amusement for Australia," Clarke said toward the begin of the public interview. "I've quite recently addressed my partners, identified with James Sutherland and Rod Marsh and Darren Lehmann and educated them that tomorrow will be my last ODI amusement for Australia. 

"I'm to a great degree grateful and thankful - I've quite recently discovered that tomorrow will be my 245th one-day amusement - its been an honor and a priviledge to speak to my nation for that measure of amusements. I'm appreciative to each player I have been sufficiently fortunate to play with and this group is no exemption to that.


"I think it is the perfect time for me and the Australian group. I was extremely blessed four years prior to get the chance to chief this one-day group. That was decent planning for me paving the way to this World Cup, I think the following Australian skipper merits the same open door. I don't think it is reasonable that I'll be fit and solid and accessible to play the following World Cup so I trust it is the perfect time.


"I think I'll leave the one-day amusement for the Australian group in a superior spot than when I assumed control over the captaincy. Last World Cup we were thumped out in the quarter-last, this World Cup we have possessed the capacity to make the last and ideally tomorrow we can go on and have achievement in that last. So two finals and one quarter-final for my time in World Cups.


"I'm cheerful it will delay my Test vocation also. That is clearly a need for me, to keep on being effective in the Test form. I think by leaving one-day cricket it likely issues me my best open door."


Clarke has played 244 ODIs for Australia, and made 7907 runs at a normal of 44.42 with eight hundreds and 57 half-hundreds of years. He drove his nation in 73 matches, of which Australia won 49. In the event that Australia win Sunday's last, it will be Clarke's first World Cup trophy as Captain.