The combined effects of another crushing defeat and the damage that the exclusion of Brad Haddin at Edgbaston has done to team spirit threatens to open cracks in the Australian camp so wide that Michael Clarke could soon tumble down them. Clarke is not only fighting at Trent Bridge this week to stop Australia losing the Ashes but is also battling to save a captaincy career that surely could not survive a fourth successive defeat in England in the biggest series of them all.

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