Alex Carey ready if Test debut comes: “I’ve done what I can so I’ll sit back and hope for the best.”

Alex Carey believes he is in good shape to be Australia’s wicketkeeper in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba despite a disappointing Sheffield Shield season.

Carey, who plays for South Australia, is the frontrunner to replace Tim Paine ahead of the highly respects Josh Inglis, but he insists he has yet to receive a nod from the selectors.

The wicketkeeper’s confidence has not been harm by a poor run in the Sheffield Shield.

Inglis, along with other Western Australian teammates Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Agar, traveled back to Perth on Tuesday for a pre-planned few days off before rejoining the squad after a brief break, but it has been interpreted as a sign of how the selectors will vote.

Alex Carey has scored just 153 runs in eight Sheffield Shield innings this season

With single-figure scores in four of his previous five appearances, but he did hit a century in the Marsh Cup before coming to Brisbane. Inglis, who surged into contention after a stellar 2020-21 domestic season, has only played one first-class match this summer due to his inclusion in the T20 World Cup squad.

Carey told RSN radio, “I’ve felt in a really wonderful position.” “I feel like I’m hitting the ball well, and while the runs haven’t come as quickly as I’d like in the first half of the Sheffield Shield season, I think I’ve been quite consistent over the last couple of years.”

“It wasn’t a case which end do I hold the bat, still felt like I knew what I was doing. And to get some runs in that one-day game is great. Nice to know what I was doing is still the right thing.

“I’ve done what I can so I’ll sit back and hope for the best.”

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Carey is particularly glad by the current selection panel’s stance. Which is led by George Bailey, of not being misled by a tiny sample of recent results. And rather of looking at the big picture.

Carey has five hundred and an average of 34.73 in first-class cricket. He was meant to be the reserve wicketkeeper on Australia’s postpone Test tour of South Africa earlier this year. And he playing for Australia A last season.

Other decisions Australia must make ahead of the first Test. Include which of Mitchell Starc and Jhye Richardson will bat at No. 5, and which of Travis Head and Usman Khawaja will bat at No. 5.

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