Michael Clarke has said that Australia will prove their critics wrong during the Ashes series this summer.
He was responding to claims from former bowler Jason Gillespie that the team are too old to beat England.
"Jason's entitled to his opinion," Clarke told reporters. "Join the queue. I've copped criticism my whole career.
"There's a long list of people who've criticised this team. We might just add 'Dizzy' to that list of people we continue to prove wrong.
"If we play our best, we give ourselves the best chance, but I've been playing for long enough to know that playing here is a really tough challenge - our record over the last 10 or 15 years is certainly not what we'd like, but there's a good reason for that. England are very tough to beat at home."
The Ashes begin in Cardiff on July 8.
