Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey’s neat glovework within the third Test in opposition to India has earned him reward from coach Andrew McDonald and the 31-year-old desires to be equally efficient with the bat within the ongoing sequence for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
McDonald mentioned Carey placed on “an absolute clinic” in Nagpur, the place Australia triumphed by 9 wickets to bounce again after back-to-back defeats in Nagpur and Delhi.
Carey conceded three byes within the match and stumped India captain Rohit Sharma, giving, McDonald believes, Australia “control of the game”.
The 31-year-old mentioned he spoke to a number of former Australia stumpers earlier than arriving in India.
“I speak to guys regularly who’ve played for Australia in terms of (Brad) Haddin and (Adam) Gilchrist and Ian Healy’s always in the corner there,” Carey instructed reporters on Sunday.
“I think our training wickets have been really difficult as well so it’s been nice to actually stand in a training wicket and keep to our bowlers.
“You don’t always do that in Australia, the nets are a bit shorter, and you probably go about your business more standing back.”
The depth of India’s batting has proved decisive within the first two matches of the sequence, whereas Australia accommodated rookie spinners Todd Murphy and Matt Kuhnemann in its tail.
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Australia’s decrease order has not contributed a lot within the sequence to this point and Carey’s plot to brush his means out of bother has not labored to this point both.
“We know that we haven’t given enough at the tail there,” Carey mentioned.
“We also understand that India’s batting line-up’s very, very strong.
“We’ll have those conversations about how we can navigate and try to get 10-15 runs each more.”
The fourth and last Test begins in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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