Alex Carey Would Love To Chat With Allan Border Who Criticized Him And His Team

Dec 14, 2020 at 1:15 PM

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Alex Carey Would Love To Chat With Allan Border Who Criticized Him And His Team

Alex Carey, the Australian wicket-keeper who captained Australia A during their second warm-up practice match against India comprising of test specialists ahead of the 4 match Test series between Australia and India, said that he would “love” having a chat with former captain Allan Border, who criticized the team and Alex Carey’s captaincy during the second day of the match.

India were dismissed for a paltry 194 with tail-ender Jasprit Bumrah top-scoring with 55 but Australia A managed only 108 with Mohammed Shami and Navdeep Saini picking 3 wickets apiece. India scored 386/4 declared in the second innings with Hanuma Vihari and Rishabh Pant scoring unbeaten tons.

Alex Carey
Alex Carey-Photo Credit: Getty Images.

Alex Carey: Love To Have A Chat With Alan Border As Attitude Wasn’t Bad By Trying Best Possible

Australia A were staring at defeat before Ben McDermott and Jack Wildermuth scored unbeaten tons to ensure a draw. Australia A scored 307/4 after reeling at 25/3 at one stage. Navdeep Saini and Jasprit Bumrah were wicketless while Mohammed Shami picked 2 wickets and Mohammed Siraj and Hanuma Vihari picked a wicket apiece.

Jack Wildermuth And Ben McDermott
Jack Wildermuth And Ben McDermott

“I guess, personally being out there, the attitude wasn’t bad. We were trying. We had difficult situations with our bowlers, as I mentioned, making sure they got the right overs in. It was difficult out there with two set batters, and Rishabh (Pant) slogging it the way he did. But I absolutely would love to sit down and chat with AB for all parts of my game.”

Alex Carey who scored 32 in first innings scored 58 in second innings as Australia A recovered after staring at defeat with Ben McDermott and Jack Wildermuth scoring unbeaten tons. Australia A were reduced to 25/3 before the two vital partnerships for 4th wicket and 5th wicket ensured the match ended in a draw.

Alex Carey Has Got A Lot Of Work To Do: Allan Border

Allan Border said while he was commentating on the match for Fox Cricket that the Australia A team’s performance in the last session of Day 2 when Rishabh Pant was scoring freely was one of the worst lethargic performances he has ever seen in the final session of any cricket.

“This is Australia A, they are representing Australia, they are young blokes trying to make their way. That fielding performance, bowling performance, captaincy performance — an absolute disgrace. Not up to scratch at all,” said Border.

“If Alex Carey is in line to be an Australian captain, he has got a lot of work to do for me. He has gone down quite a few pegs. He is a good cricketer Alex Carey, he has got a bit of energy himself, but yesterday he should have reacted to the way the general feel around the team was,” he continued.

Allan Border
Allan Border. Getty

Allan Border added that he would accept it if the players had an explanation for what transpired in that session.

“I’m happy for any of those guys to come talk to me about what was going on yesterday afternoon and stand corrected but very ordinary stuff,” said Border.

India’s wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant scored 103 off 73 balls in the last session of the second day as both batsmen Hanuma Vihari and Rishabh Pant made a mockery of Australia A’s bowling attack without Cameron Green and Harry Conway, who were concussed and had to be substituted

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