As Michael Clarke tries to complete the Adelaide Test match with the help of tablets, injections, energy gels, braces, bandages, stickytape and who knows what potions, unguents and magic spells, the question is not so much whether he wants to play in Brisbane as whether Cricket Australia can afford ...

You can't blame Michael Clarke for wanting to play in the Adelaide Test, and it's hard to blame Cricket Australia for letting him. But it was always going to be a gamble, and now both the Australian captain and the selectors now have to live with the consequences.

Follow live coverage of the final day in Adelaide as Australia set India a total of 364 to win.

To be fair, it was only missing for one game, but Cavalry starting pitcher Frank Gailey was back to his best in a dominant 5-0 win over the Sydney Blue Sox.

Daly Cherry-Evans, the last remaining player from Des Hasler's 2011 premiership team, was ''excited'' by news of the coach's pending return to the northern beaches.