“I can’t remember what I said to him but I remember Aleem touching me, and I asked him politely to not touch me because if I touched him I’d be suspended for three matches,” said Clarke.

“I just asked the question why we haven’t got the meter out there and it took a few overs to get it out.

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That’s all I can remember, coincidentally. From my point of view I have no issue, I just know a player is not allowed to touch an umpire... but for me personally I have no issue with it.” Clarke suggested the abandonment could have come even earlier if previous light readings had been adhered to. “Once they took the reading,

I knew it was going to be darker than what it was in Manchester (when they came off in the third Test). I knew it was going to be darker than what it was in Manchester.”u00a0