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Adelaide: <\/strong>Australia’s cricket captain Michael Clarke revealed that he won’t play cricket into his late 30s due to a back problem that was diagnosed at the age of 17.<\/p>\n

Clarke was diagnosed with three degenerative discs in his back when aged 17. The 31-year-old, however, was confident that the back problem, which side-lined him during the last Australian summer and partly on the recent West Indies tour, would not curtail his playing career.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately degeneration, it can’t improve, so it’s about now managing my condition,” said Clarke while delivering the lecture at the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia’s annual convention.<\/p>\n

Clarke said that before retiring, he would like the team to have success.<\/p>\n

“I’d love to see this team have success, achieve everything it wants to achieve. And then I think that is time for me to give the reins to somebody else and go and start the other side of life I guess – get involved in some sort of business and have a family and do all the things that are special to me and I still want to do when my cricket career is over,” he said.<\/p>\n

Clarke also said that he was forced him to keep his wedding a secret from his parents because he is never comfortable with the scrutiny of his private life.<\/p>\n

Clarke wed Kyly Boldy last week at a luxury resort in the New South Wales Blue Mountains and it was attended by family and close friends.<\/p>\n

“We told nobody, our parents didn’t know. We invited a small group of people to come away on a holiday with us for what they thought was a family holiday with us. And we shocked our family, let alone the world,” he said.<\/p>\n

Clarke said he is is ready to accept on-field scrutiny but is never comfortable with it off-field.<\/p>\n

“I think I find the scrutiny on the field quite easy to deal with … the stuff that I have probably found hard, and still find hard to accept, is the off-the-field stuff.<\/p>\n

“When I was vice-captain I had a lot of media scrutiny anyway, so I was accustomed to the stuff off the field, so nothing has really changed as captain,” he said.<\/p>\n

Clarke also said that spin wizard Shane Warne was his biggest cricket influence.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I do believe if he wanted to continue to play – no doubt he’s as fit and as strong as I have ever seen him – so he could certainly still be playing Test cricket,” he said. (IANS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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