alex carey Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
alex carey is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Alex Tyson Carey
Born
August 27, 1991, Loxton, South Australia
Age
32 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 25 | 72 | 38 | 3 |
Inn | 36 | 66 | 26 | 3 |
Runs | 1003 | 1814 | 233 | 32 |
Avg | 31.34 | 32.98 | 11.1 | 16.0 |
SR | 57.58 | 88.4 | 108.37 | 110.34 |
HS | 111 | 106 | 37 | 14 |
NO | 4 | 11 | 5 | 1 |
100s | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 109 | 167 | 19 | 0 |
6s | 6 | 18 | 7 | 1 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 25 | 72 | 38 | 3 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Adelaide Strikers
- Australia A
- Australian Prime Minister's Invitation XI
- Australian XI
- Brad Haddin XII
- Delhi Capitals
- PJ Cummins' XI
- South Australia
- South Australia Under-17s
- South Australia Under-19s
- South Australia Under-23s
- Sussex
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
In his initial cricketing days, Carey was a specialist batsman by design in grade cricket but had a dismal start to his dreams in the new sport. That didn't prevent him from getting a rookie contract for the 2013-14 season with South Australia. It was then that he realized the need for having multiple skills. Carey started to shoulder wicket-keeping duties and slowly got a hang of being a gloveman. This also opened up more opportunities for him to feature in the playing XI. He started batting in the lower middle order.
The 2015-16 season was a stellar one for Carey in Grade cricket and such was his impact that he got a call up for the Sheffield Shield later that season for the final rounds. He managed to catch the eye of the selectors and earned his first senior contract for South Australia for the 2016-17 season. That proved to be the turning point for Carey as he became only the fourth gloveman ever to amass over 500 runs and affect 50 dismissals in a single Sheffield Shield Season.
Australia's recurring problems with the wicket-keeper batsman slot has meant that Carey has been in the selectors' radar since his redemption as a cricketer. With Matthew Wade losing his form, it did seem like Carey would be a darkhorse for the 2017-18 Ashes squad. However, it was Tim Paine who got the nod in a stunning selection that nevertheless paid dividends for Australia in the series. Carey hasn't let any of this affect him and continues to make runs in Sheffield Shield apart from being a terrific wicket-keeper.
The hard work paid off for him when he got picked up as Australia's limited-overs wicket-keeper in the latter half of 2018. With Matthew Wade out of tough, Carey quickly became Australia’s first choice keeper in the white-ball formats. He had a good run in the 2019 Cricket World Cup and set the record for the most catches by a wicket-keeper in a single edition of a World Cup with 18 catches. Subsequently Carey was even named the vice-captain of Australia’s ODI side and led Australia to victory against West Indies in Aaron Finch’s absence. He scored his maiden ODI hundred against England in 2020.
With Tim Paine stepping down, Carey quickly found himself thrust into the Test team as well and he received his Baggy Green during the first Test of the 2021-22 Ashes. His maiden Test century came in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in 2022 and he became the first Australian wicket-keeper to score a century after Brad Haddin in 2013.
Carey continued to don the gloves for Australia across formats and was named in Australia’s 2023 Cricket World Cup squad.
Written by Hariprasad Sadanandan and Anurag Hegde
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
As inaugural captain of the Greater Western Sydney Giants on their road towards inclusion in the Australian Football League, Alex Carey appeared to be a talent lost to cricket. But the fade of his Australian football career around his 20th birthday left him to fall back on the other sport that had competed for his junior attention, starting a road to becoming Australia's wicketkeeper across formats and also a vice-captain of the ODI side.
Carey had always been highly regarded by South Australia, for whom he turned out at age-group levels in addition to his club side Glenelg. On returning home from Sydney, Carey excelled in grade ranks as a batsman, but found the going harder when first chosen for the Redbacks in early 2013. These struggles led the adaptable Carey to make another switch, from full-time batter to a wicketkeeper-batter down the order, and it was in this form that he was able to progress. Amid a strong club and 2nd XI season in 2015-16, he displaced Tim Ludeman as South Australia's gloveman, and earned strong reviews for his precise footwork, soft hands and promising, elegant batting.
He took 57 Sheffield Shield catches and two stumpings in 2016-17 and was in the selectors' thoughts entering the 2017-18 Ashes, only to be nipped out of a baggy green by the return of the older, wiser Tim Paine. He quickly replaced Paine in the ODI team and remarkably became vice-captain of both limited-overs teams in the aftermath of Australian cricket's cultural review, cementing his place for the 2019 ODI World Cup. Two years later, he captained the ODI side in a series against West Indies.
Carey's elevation to the Test team also came in rather chaotic circumstances after Paine resigned as captain shortly before the 2021-22 Ashes then stepped away from the game. However, although it was a hasty leap into the role, it felt like the natural order.
ESPNcricinfo staff