Clark chasing clean sweep

Stuart Clark challenged Australia to "do another number" on Bangladesh

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Stuart Clark has called on Australia to show no mercy in the final one-day international against Bangladesh despite the series being wrapped up.

The hosts triumphed by eight wickets in Darwin on Wednesday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, but Clark is keen to extend their dominance to tomorrow's encounter at the same venue.

Asked if Australia were planning a clean sweep, the seamer quipped: "I would've thought so. I'm not sure we're all that interested in losing.

“I'd like to see if we could do another number on (Bangladesh) and hopefully get them out for not many, or, if we bat first, make a lot of runs."

Clark claimed playing and training in Darwin's heat provides a useful warm-up for the humidity Australia can expect to face during next month's Test series in India.

"The heat is similar,” he said. “India's a place of its own, but it's good preparation heading into that series.”

Clark rated the importance of beating India on foreign turf “a very close second” to winning the Ashes, underlining the competitive recent history between Australia and India, but he dismissed an ongoing sense of ill-feeling between the teams.

He said: "There'll be a little bit of competitiveness, which I'd hope was in any game of cricket or any sporting match between two countries, but I wouldn't have thought there'd be too much niggle as far as the nasty stuff (is concerned)."

Clark also defended absent all-rounder Andrew Symonds, who was sent home before the current series after missing a compulsory team meeting to go fishing.

"Symonds is such a larger than life character,” he said. “As much as that stuff happened, people still love to see him playing cricket and people love playing against him and competing with him.”