Their recent losses to India seems to have dented Australian cricketers' confidence as middle-order batsman Michael Clarke has made it clear to the home crowd that the new-look team was not invincible and fans should not have 'unrealistic' expectations from the young Test side.

Clarke, who last week declared his ambition to be Australia's next Test captain, said the team's defeats during the recent one-day series in India and the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa were an indication that it was unrealistic to expect the side to dominate world cricket as it did in the previous decade when Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Damien Martyn were a part of the set up.

"I think the Australian public has taken the Australian cricket team's form for granted because we have had so many great players and they have performed so good for 10-15 years," Clarke said.

"I think it is unrealistic now and I think that has shown recently. We didn't win the Twenty20 World Cup. We only won 4-2 in the Indian one-day series and that was a tough series," he was quoted as saying by the Courier Mail.