Australia’ll hit back in second Test, says Clarke

DUBAI: Australian captain Michael Clarke felt his team has improved against spinners since their 4-0 routing in India last year.

"Unfortunately the result is the same as what it was in India. But I think as a team in general we´ve improved out of sight since that series, for a number of reasons," said Clarke, who flopped in both innings with two and three.

Clarke promised his team will hit back in the second Test. "Any time we lose a game it breeds fire in your belly. We don´t like losing, Australians in general don´t like losing.

"We´ve got a couple of days now to prepare as well as we can and we´ll look forward to that second Test match.

"We got outplayed and Pakistan deserves a lot of credit for the way they played over the whole five days. We know we can play a lot better and look forward to showing that in the second Test match." (AFP)