Australia against India Steven Smith may captain

Australia against India Steven Smith may captain.All choices, including hamstring surgery, will be peddled in the push to delay Michael Clarke's vocation, with Cricket Australia conceding the Australian captain could miss the whole Test summer. Checks on Clarke's hamstring were uncertain and will be pored over by specialists in the nearing days to focus a strategy, with the accentuation to be put on February's World Cup and safeguarding the Ashes in England next winter. 

While surgery would be unrealistic, group execution boss Pat Howard said it could be a probability. 

"We are putting the World Cup and Ashes straight up there and on the off chance that he's ideal for the Indian Test arrangement so be it. Be that as it may we've seen him hurried back and what we'd detest is for him to play a Test or two and afterward break down. 

"Everything is on the table as of right now. We saw Nathan Coulter-Nile experience hamstring surgery and return in eight weeks, so clearly that is one plausibility, yes. In any case we are really experiencing observing all procedures right now, and verifying we get player purchase in. It's paramount that Michael as the patient accepts he is surveying all conceivable choices," Howard said. 

"I have discussed the needs and what they are. At times you have got to take a smidgen of a long haul and a medium term picture. In the event that we do this well, we can get additional years out of Michael who is a world class player, instead of speculation in days and competitions. We have a chance to truly get the best out of the last couple of years of his profession." 

Brad Haddin will go about as Test skipper if fit and George Bailey keeps on captainning the ODI group in Clarke's nonattendance. 

Clarke has never missed a home Test through harm, however has been much of the time truant from the one-day group. While he said in the wake of softening down up Zimbabwe in September that he had no expectation of making the World Cup his restricted overs swansong, his future in the short configuration is liable to be talked about with CA after the competition, which is consistently held in Australia and New Zealand without precedent for a long time. 

"Getting to the World Cup is imperative and how we overcome this advancement and recovery project will be essential first," Howard said. "Anything past that we will evaluate how his body has passed through that period and it will be a consultative methodology. 'Mate, what can your body handle?' If it can deal with everything and we've done it truly well, continue onward, on the off chance that it wouldn't we be able to survey that around then." 

Clarke's repeating hamstring issues - he has harmed the same leg three times in as numerous months - have incited CA's therapeutic group to counsel specialists further abroad. He was harmed soon after landing in Zimbabwe for an one-day competition and damage himself again amid a match. He missed the ensuing ODI arrangement in the UAE however traversed the Tests, and said on the eve of the first dayer in Perth that he felt fit and solid. Howard guarded CA's administration of the Australian skipper. 

Australia all-rounder Steve Smith is allegedly picking up force to be quick followed to be his side's Test skipper against India, as selectors consider the truth that captain Michael Clarke's body can never again be depended upon to play customary universal cricket. 

Clarke is at slim chances to line-up for the first Test in Brisbane on December 4 and may be compelled to yield the whole arrangement, with mentor Darren Lehmann affirming the captain would be making February's World Cup his need this late spring. 

Bad habit chief Brad Haddin is required to be fit for the first Test and all things considered would take the reins, yet the wicketkeeper is himself dashing the clock to come back from a shoulder damage and his accessibility stays under a cloud, News.com.au reported. 

Should both Clarke and Haddin be sidelined, next-huge thing 25-year-old Smith is ready to be brought in for filling an initiative vacuum and be named Australia's most youthful commander since Kim Hughes. 

Previous Test skipper Mark Taylor has supported Smith for the occupation, while individual greats Greg Chappell and Mike Hussey accept that the choice ought to boil down to either the adolescent New South Welshman or the accomplished Shane Watson. 

In-structure Smith has his Test normal up to 40.39 with four centuries, and is viewed as the man well on the way to succeed Clarke, yet the inquiry remains whether its excessively soon for Smith to be pushed into the most pressurized occupation in Australian sport.