Alex Carey can prove to be a disaster for the Indian team.Image credit source: AFP
In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting between India and Australia, so far only Indian team and Indian players are continuously talked about. Captain Rohit Sharma did not play the first Test, Shubman Gill’s injury and the coverage of Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah in the Australian media have been in the headlines for the last few days. The ongoing discussion about the Australian team is about players like Steve Smith, Travis Head and captain Pat Cummins. These three stars will prove to be a big threat for the Indian team, but the Australian player who hasn’t been talked about so far is the team’s wicketkeeper Alex Carey, whose bat has rained down runs in the last few days.
As a wicketkeeper-batsman, Alex Carey does not have the status or popularity of Team India star Rishabh Pant. He has played some solid innings for Australia, but the way Rishabh Pant has batted surprisingly on difficult wickets like Sydney, Brisbane, Birmingham and Johannesburg, has made Pant a hit. In such a situation, apparently, while there is some tension between the Australian media and former cricketers regarding the Indian wicketkeeper, that kind of concern regarding Alex Carey does not exist in the Indian camp, especially among Indian fans, but the time has come. to change this.
Normally, only the big names in the Australian team can be seen proving to be a threat to the Indian team, but this time Carey cannot be ignored. Carey, who performed well in the ODI series on the tour of England just two months ago, has batted well in Australia’s domestic first-class tournament, Sheffield Shield. Playing for South Australia, Carey scored 452 runs in 6 innings from just 3 matches at a tremendous average of 90, which included 2 centuries. Their scores were like this: 90, 111, 42, 123 (not out), 44, 42. That means not a single small score.
The success of the Australian team will depend on the good innings of their top-order batsmen like Usman Khawaja, Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Head. Less can be said about the bowling attack like Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon. But this form of Carey shows that even if Team India quickly shakes off Australia’s top spot, it won’t be easy to overtake Carey. Although this left-handed batsman’s record against India is nothing special and he has scored only 170 runs in 8 innings, looking at this record, team India will not make the mistake of taking it lightly.
