Clarke toxic

Retired Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson has painted a bleak picture of the team culture under Michael Clarke, describing it as fractured and ‘‘toxic’’. Johnson suggested things were so bad that some teammates didn’t want to play. The left-armer was one of four players suspended for not completing a feedback task during Australia’s shambolic tour of India in 2013. He said cliques had developed after Ricky Ponting handed the captaincy over to Clarke in 2011. ‘‘It was a pretty bad experience, bad time, a couple of us didn’t want to play.’’ Clarke has recently released his autobiography.