Captain's Corner: Rating the last 5 Australian skippers

#4 Michael Clarke – 4/10

Clarke wasn't a popular captain amongst his team mates

"Pup" as he was fondly called was not a very fond captain amongst his teammates. Several Australian players including Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds and Mitchell Johnson have gone on to criticise his captaincy severely.

Johnson went on to call the dressing room atmosphere under Clarke as 'toxic'. Clarke's tiffs with Simon Katich in the dressing room is well known to the public now.

Stats: Clarke captained Australia in Tests 47 times, winning 24, losing 16 and drawing 7 with a Win/Loss (W/L)ratio of 1.5, pretty low compared to his close predecessors. In ODIs, his record was much better with 50 wins in 74 games at the helm with a W/L ratio of 2.38. Even in T20Is, where he was the skipper till 2011; Clarke had a W/L ratio of 3 with 12 wins in 18 games.

High point: The biggest highlights of his captaincy would be the 2015 World Cup triumph at home where he made 74 in the finals against the Kiwis, in what would be his last match for Australia.

Low point: Under his captaincy, Australia were bowled out for their lowest Test score in 109 years - 47 against the Proteas in Johannesburg.

The 2015 World Cup win was the only feather in Clarke's cap as skipper

Final Verdict: Though Clarke's W/L ratio is comparable to the likes of Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh, the fingers pointed at him by several players and coach, John Buchanan, suggest that he wasn't a popular leader.

His inability to merge his group of players and create a good team atmosphere go against him in the final verdict. His W/L ratio mainly stemmed from a good, if not excellent, group of players rather than his tactical acumen.