I watched that. It was a stellar innings. Considering the bowlers at the stage in their career, and the ground they were playing on, there is a reasonable argument for that being most destructive attack RSA have ever fielded. Best innings I can remember from a vistor in RSA before Perera other than arguably Sachin vs Steyn, which I struggle to assess, and Kohli in 2018, which I am (somewhat) unfairly dismissing because it was a dead rubber.This part is true. Ftr I think peak Clarke was closer to Lara than DeVilliers if we strictly keep this for tests. Not many can slap Steyn, Phillander and Morkel the way he did on a Cape Town pitch which yielded two double figure team scores for the next two innings.
Timely reminder of how good he was. If not for the bad back, Clarke was on course for a dead set ATG
But this was more of an exception rather than Clarkes modus operandi away from home. He was fantastic at bruising weak visitors, but when you play as long as him and average close to 40 away, particularly in an era of mediocre bowlers, you realise this is an exception.