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  Xtra Time Web Desk: Former Australian captain Michael Clarke created a controversy on Tuesday by claiming that Australians had stopped sledging Indian captain Virat Kohli as they don’t want to risk losing a fat money in the IPL. Clarke said, “I feel that Australian cricket, and probably every other team over a little period, went the opposite and actually sucked up to India…The players were like: ‘I’m not going to sledge Kohli, I want him to pick me for Bangalore so I can make my USD 1 million for my six weeks’.” But fans will remember the treatment he received for sledging Sachin Tendulkar during the series in 2004. Clarke sledged the master blaster by shouting “oldie” at him only to be reminded by Sehwag that his teammates call him ‘pup’. “Your friends call you ‘pup’, right? Which breed?” said Sehwag as the matter ended there. Clarke’s own IPL career did not end on the most auspicious note, with then IPL chairman Lalit Modi saying Clarke ‘chickened out’ of the IPL 2009 season because he feared he would go unsold in the auctions and he was unwilling to lower his base price.