Clarke about to touch Bradman

He has performed Bradmanesque feats with the bat before with the spree of double-centuries and a triple a few years back and now that Michael Clarke is back in the Test team, he is on the brink of reaching another of the marks of the sport's greatest batsman.

It was almost forgotten in the mix of Adam Voges's debut and the hype around a potential first cap for Fawad Ahmed that Clarke was playing his first Test for six months.

It was in Adelaide, the site of the rescheduled first Test against India, in which he made an emotional century compiled less than two weeks after the death of friend Phillip Hughes and after tearing his hamstring in the field.

That was his 28th ton, leaving him one short of Don Bradman's haul of 29. It is a milestone the Australia captain could very well reach by the end of this brief Caribbean tour or if not by the time he arrives home from the Ashes in August.