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Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has been named in the team for the first test against India on Monday (24th November), but the skipper faces a race against time to prove he's fit enough to take the field.

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SOUNDBITE: Rod Marsh, Cricket Australia's Chairman of the National Selection Panel

"What they (medical team) have said is that he needs to start running and if he doesn't start running by, I think, Wednesday then I think we can safely assume that he won't be playing the test match."

SOUNDBITE: Rod Marsh, Cricket Australia's Chairman of the National Selection Panel

Well my gut feeling all along was that he'd be fit for the test match but now he's got to play the two day game here, for him to prove his fitness. I think that's really important because you know with his recent history we can't have him breaking down in the first innings of a test match per se. I think we all realise that."