Australia's stand-in captain Michael Clarke thinks Andrew Symonds owes a debt to national selectors for choosing him for the one-dayers against Pakistan despite a poor domestic form and off-field controversies and now he should repay it by strong performance.

Symonds had undergone counselling to deal with a series of off-field controversies including the gone-fishing episode, Brisbane pub brawl and using of crude language on Kiwi Brendon McCullum.