[Australia], November 19, Perth: The’slight’ technical change that Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey made to his batting stance before the five Test matches against India was the key to his success in red-ball cricket.

As the leading scorer in the first four Sheffield Shield rounds, Carey will enter the next Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT).

The southpaw has amassed 452 at an average of 90.4 with his blazing style, which includes two hundreds. With one less game played than second-place Hilton Cartwright, he is at the top with even more impressive stats.

There are two main causes for the abrupt shift in Carey’s exciting season debut. His extended hiatus from competitive cricket is the first.

The second reason is the technical adjustment he made, which gave him more time to execute his strokeplay with precision and force by holding the bat a little higher following the bowler’s delivery.

“It’s only a little, but right now I feel like I’m in a decent position and responding to the ball rather effectively. After Australia’s first team practice, Carey said, “You just play and play and play, you don’t really get a chance to work on too many things,” according to cricket.com.au.

“Since I don’t have any games for a while, I’ve simply fiddled about with my hands a little bit and discovered something that felt nice and kind of ran with it. I just raised my hands slightly, raised the bat to the sky, and then tried to respond. It didn’t need much searching since it felt nice almost immediately,” he said.

Carey is eager to continue his impressive run of success in the next BGT series against India, which kicks off in Perth on Friday.

Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, and Mitchell Starc are the members of Australia’s first Test team.

The following players are part of India’s Border-Gavaskar Series squad: Dhruv Jurel (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna, Rishabh Pant (wk), KL Rahul, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Rabi.