‘I don’t know what they’re thinking’ – Michael Clarke hits out at ‘confusing’ and ’embarrassing’ Steve Smith’s T20I selection

Michael Clarke was left fuming at Australia’s “confusing” selections after it was confirmed that Steve Smith will be opening the batting in the T20Is against South Africa.

Smith has not made a single fifty in his last 23 T20I innings, since November 2019. Since then, he has scored 431 runs at an average of 22.68 with a strike rate of 121 and a high score of 46. No other Australian batter with 200 runs have a lower strike rate in this period.

He batted four times in the 2021 T20 World Cup, making 69 runs at 23 and a dismal strike rate of 97; and failed to reach 20 seven times in his next nine innings. After a disappointing run in the warm-up matches of the 2022 T20 World Cup, where he

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