Clarke is Ready For UAE Tour

The scans confirmed that his hamstring injury, Australia captain Michael Clarke faces a race against time after the series against Pakistan in the UAE, to prove his fitness.

Clarke returned to Sydney early Tuesday after leaving the tri-series in Zimbabwe and he is now less than five weeks away, with the first ODI against Pakistan in Sharjah suffers from an intensive rehabilitation program.

"Michael Clarke returned from an MRI scan of the left hamstring muscle injury in Zimbabwe have confirmed that," Alex Kountouris, said Cricket Australia physio. "He will be in intensive rehabilitation for the injury and before we decide when he will return to training and playing will be monitoring his progress over the next week."

Clarke, Australia's first training session after arriving in Zimbabwe have suffered injury and missed the first two matches. He was passed fit to play the third game against Zimbabwe, but the injury was aggravated during his innings of 68 not out.

Clark left the field at the beginning of the chase in Zimbabwe, despite the progress in Zimbabwe, he returned to take charge and he was also the first one-day loss in 31 years, Zimbabwe, Australia was bowled over.

It is an injury to his fielding, bowling has worsened as a result, but he must now turn his attention to regaining fitness for a tour of the Middle East returned to the house is unclear. Australia in the first Test in Dubai starting on October 22 in front of the Pakistan team will play three one-day internationals.