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How many thought he would get here? And respect him this much? The first time I interviewed Clarke was more than a decade ago at his newly bought McMansion at Breakfast Point in Sydney's inner west.

Featuring a widescreen television and a pool table with striking red felt, his bachelor pad on steroids followed his enormous deal with Slazenger. His career went to script from there. He scored on debut on Indian soil in , with his grandparents in the crowd adding to the fairytale.

On that tour, as the fresh, young upstart of the side, he playfully leapt into the arms and onto the shoulders of his older teammates like he was a little labrador. They called him "Pup". The souring of Clarke's relationship with the public came two years later as he walked the red carpet amid A-list company, sporting tattoos and gelled hair with bikini model Lara Bingle on his arm. With a Ferrari in the garage, some media commentators were quick to point out he'd sold out on his working-class background.

Much of that invective came from News Ltd, and anyone within cricket's inner circle will tell you that his recent deal to become a columnist for the media company was a strategic move to stop the hate.

Clarke has told me on numerous occasions that, yes, he's sensitive to criticism but, yes, he knows it goes with the territory. He's known to read every word about him — a throwaway line among some cricket roundsmen is that he Googles his own name — but sometimes the reportage is plain wrong.

Take the time he controversially abandoned the tour of New Zealand in March to break off his engagement with Bingle, when plumbers were called to the couple's Bondi apartment because "someone had placed something, worth a lot of money, down the toilet". Of course, sometimes the issues have been real. Revelations that teammate Simon Katich throttled Clarke in the SCG dressing room because the vice-captain wanted to see Bingle after a Test match win in early enhanced the public witch-hunt.

Cut against this backdrop, Clarke has been skewered as a metrosexual lacking focus. It culminated when the crowd at the Gabba shamefully booed him two years ago when he came out for the coin toss. Those within the team have, for years, talked about Clarke's work ethic at training. He prefers proper net sessions to throwdowns. When Tim Nielsen was coach, he often challenged him on the drills they would do and if it was enough.

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