Michael Clarke has come out in defense of the much criticized 'rotation policy' of Australia implemented throughout the summer. The Australian team management has rotated its players for the entirety of the season, resting the ones with minor niggles. Clarke, who himself was rested for the first two ODIs against Sri Lanka nursing his hamstring, felt that such a policy worked in the country's favour as Australia had an equally talented reserve bench.
"There's a lot that is spoken about within the group that people outside the group probably aren't aware of," Clarke told a few reporters in Brisbane. "We've probably seen some cases throughout the past 12 months where guys have not been 100% fit or had little niggles that probably haven't been communicated as well as they needed to be to the media, and in essence to the public. The Perth Test match was a great example. Call it resting Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus but the facts were they just weren't fit enough to perform at their best. The two guys who we brought in for Siddle and Hilfenhaus (John Hastings and Mitchell Johnson), we were confident that they could do a better job at 100% than those guys at 70 or 80%," added Clarke.
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