Usman Khawaja exclusion from central contracts hard to believe: Michael Clarke

SYDNEY: Former Australian captain Michael Clarke questioned Cricket Australia's decision to exclude Usman Khawaja from its list of centrally contracted players. The new list for the upcoming year was announced on Thursday and featured a number of limited-overs specialists with the upcoming T20 World Cup in mind.

Khawaja has played only nine T20Is for Australia, the last of which was in September 2016. "I find it very hard to believe that someone with the talent and the runs behind him over 10 years isn't in Australia's top 20 players," Clarke said of Khawaja on Big Sports Breakfast.

Clarke however said that he doesn't think this would have factoried in. "I would like to think it's nothing personal," Clarke said. "I don't think JL is like that." IANS