Michael Clarke: fitting is not the Aussie way



Australian Test and one-day captain, Michael Clarke, has come out in protection of his mates next to match-fixing allegation.

Mazhar Majeed, exciting with getting bribes to fix matches, has maintain that the Aussies fixed "brackets", a set period of a match on which punter bet, a London Court heard on Monday.

Clarke, however, rubbishes such allegation on Friday, saying he was "very sure" no Australian players were involved.

"For me, personally, it's not the Australian way," Clarke told journalists in Sydney before boarding a plane for the tour of South Africa.

"Never in my time have I knowledgeable a conversation with anybody about any such thing.

"There's clearly been a couple of occasions when guys have been approach and that's been report to our team manager and the ICC, so all the boys in the Australian team are aware that it is occurrence, it is going on.

"But it's never concerned me and I'm very sure it's never concerned any of the Australian players."

Clarke's comments come in the wake of the trial that involve spot-fixing allegation against former Pakistan captain, Salman Butt, and bowlers Mohammad Asif continue in London.

Prosecutors allege that Majeed conspire with Butt and fast bowlers Asif and Mohammad Amir to fix parts of the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan last August.

Clarke will guide Australia in three one-day internationals and two Tests against South Africa in October and November.

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