Australian wicket-keeper bat Alex Carey has revealed that his strategies which has helped while keeping in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar series against India. Carey has been brilliant behind the stumps, especially while keeping to Nathan Lyon, Matthew Kuhnemann, and Todd Murphy.
This is Carey’s first tour to India but the gloveman has done a tremendous job. Carey has revealed that he stays in touch with former Australian wicket-keepers like Brad Haddin, Ian Healy, and Adam Gilchrist and they have been of great help.
Furthermore, Carey has been spot-on with DRS calls for captains Pat Cummins and Steven Smith.
As quoted by The Age, Carey said: “I speak to guys regularly who’ve played for Australia in terms of Haddin and Gilchrist and Ian Healy’s always in the corner there. Tim Nielsen at South Australia is a guy I’ve worked with for a number of years, so bounce things off him.
“Then when you land over here, you get a bit of a feel. As a batting group, we know it’s going to be difficult. We know that the eight-degree ball might not get the wicket, it might be the one that doesn’t spin. In Nagpur, Uzzy had a half volley that spun eight degrees and he nicks it, and you go, well, there’s not much you can do about that.”
Carey had scored a quickfire knock of 33-ball 36 in the first Test match at Nagpur but he has scored only 56 runs in five innings. The left-hander added he will stick to his guns and will not shy away from playing sweep and reverse sweeps.
“I had some confidence out of the first game and then getting out defending, am I happy with that? Not really. I think probably just sticking to my method now and understanding if you chase it too much, then you might get yourself into trouble. So yeah, back my strength and try to score with the sweeps and manipulate a little bit more that way. In India, if you change your method too much, it goes pretty quickly. I’ll continue to be positive over here.”
The southpaw batter admitted that their lower order hasn’t been able to contribute much with the bat.
“We know that we haven’t given enough at the tail there. We also understand that India’s batting line-up is very, very strong. They bat all the way down to 10 really. We’ll have those conversations about how we can navigate and try to get 10-15 runs each more.”
The fourth Test match of the series will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad from March 9.
