He was in their humiliated shoes last summer, but don’t expect Australian captain Michael Clarke to offer any advice to India’s beaten cricketers.

After last summer’s Ashes debacle, Clarke recalls being asked the same question now posed of India’s Test team: where to from here?

“Fortunately I don’t have to answer that question,” Clarke said after completing a 4-0 series sweep in Adelaide on Saturday.

“That is for the Indian team. That is for (Indian captain) MS Dhoni and the Indian selectors to talk about and think about and assess.

“I was asked the same questions 12 months ago once we lost to England.

“And we as a squad, as a team, as a vice-captain at that stage, needed to assess where we needed to improve our game.

“But fortunately today, I sit on the other side.”

Clarke said the Australians involved in last summer’s failed Ashes campaign could relate to India’s current agony.

“Individual players who were a part of last summer remember it very fondly – and knew we had to do a lot of work to improve our games both personally and as a team.

“It’s a very special feeling to sit here beating India 4-0 knowing that last summer, I couldn’t buy a run.”

Clarke was exaggerating: he made 437 runs at 44.16 against England last summer.

But as captain against India, he amassed 626 runs at an average of 125.2 and was a deserved man of the series.