Melbourne: Putting to rest speculation about Michael Clarke's dipping popularity within the national cricket team, coach Darren Lehmann said that Australian captain occupies the second-most important position after the Prime Minister and everyone wants him to be fit and raring to go.


Darren Lehmann 

"He's captain of Australia, the second most important position behind the Prime Minister as such, we need our captain playing well," Lehmann said. "When he played well he got a hundred in Adelaide and we won that Test match. We took a risk with that with his hamstring and the history of it but that was for good reason for obvious reasons as everyone knows," he told the Adelaide radio station FiveAA.