Alex Tyson Carey is an Australian cricket player who was born on August 27, 1991. He used to play Australian rules football, but now he keeps wickets for the Australian national team in both test matches and one-day games. He plays cricket for South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers in Australia. Carey was the leader of the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2010, but when they joined the Australian Football League in 2012, he was kicked off the team. He went back to his home state of South Australia and started playing domestic cricket.
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Early career:
Football
Carey played Australian rules football and cricket when he was a teenager. As he got older, he started to play football at a higher level. By the time he was 15, he was playing for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) reserves competition with adults. Carey was on South Australia’s team for the AFL Under 18 Championships in 2008, but he didn’t play any games. He was also in the 2008 class of the AIS/AFL Academy. In 2009, he kept getting better and played for South Australia in the AFL Under 18 Championships. He also helped Glenelg win the SANFL reserves title.
Carey turned down the South Australian Cricket Association’s offer of a rookie contract and moved to Sydney in 2010 to join the Australian Football League’s (AFL) new expansion club, the Greater Western Sydney Giants. At the time, the Giants were playing in the TAC Cup to prepare for joining the AFL in 2012. Carey led the team to the finals, and even though he was hurt and missed the last four games, he won the team’s best and fairest award. He played for them again in the North East Australian Football League in 2011, but he wasn’t picked for their first AFL team in 2012, so he went back to Adelaide.
Cricket career:
Domestic and T20 career
Carey was going to go back to the Glenelg Football Club when he got back to Adelaide, but he changed his mind and went back to grade cricket with the Glenelg Cricket Club for the 2012–13 season. He started out as a batsman and averaged close to 50 in all forms for Glenelg. His performance was good enough to get him his first call-up to play for South Australia. He played his first List A cricket game against New South Wales in the Ryobi Cup. Carey also played his first first-class game in the Sheffield Shield. He played in three Shield games, but his hitting average was so low (10.1) that he was taken off the team.
South Australia gave Carey his first deal as an adult for the 2016–17 season. This season was by far his best so far. He became only the fourth player after Chris Hartley, Matthew Wade, and Adam Gilchrist to get 500 runs with the bat and 50 dismissals as a wicketkeeper in a single Sheffield Shield season. During the final of the Sheffield Shield, he got 59 wickets, which is a record for a wicket-keeper in a single Sheffield Shield season. Carey started the 2017–18 season by playing for South Australia in the JLT Cup. He came close to his first century when he made 92 against Victoria in the elimination final. He and Jake Weatherald put on 212 runs, which was South Australia’s fourth-biggest one-day partnership of all time.
International career
Because of how well he played in the Big Bash League in 2017–18, Carey made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Australia on January 19, 2018, replacing a sick Tim Paine. Later that same month, he was named to Australia’s Twenty20 International (T20I) team for the 2017–18 Trans-Tasman Tri-Series, which started in February 2018. On February 3, 2018, he played his first T20I for Australia against New Zealand.
Carey was put in a preliminary group of 26 players on July 16, 2020, so they could start training for a possible tour to England after the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 14, 2020, Cricket Australia announced that the games would happen, and Carey would be part of the touring group. Carey was chosen as Australia’s captain for the 1st ODI against West Indies in July 2021. Aaron Finch was out with a knee injury at the time, so Carey took over as captain. During the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in December 2022, Carey made his first Test Century. He was only the second wicketkeeper (after Rod Marsh) to do so at the MCG, and he was the first Australian wicketkeeper to do so since Brad Haddin in 2013.
Alex Carey’s records:
- In the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season, Carey was one of only four players to get 500 runs with the bat and 50 dismissals as a wicketkeeper batter.
- Carey tied the record for a wicket-keeper’s first Test match by catching eight balls.
- The ICC put him in the “Team of the Tournament” as a wicketkeeper for the 2019 ICC World Cup.
- Carey caught 18 balls in a single ICC World Cup, which was a record for wicket-keepers. He did this in the 2019 ICC World Cup.
- Before the 2020 Indian Premier League, he was picked up by the Delhi Capitals during the 2020 IPL draughts.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career of Alex Carey
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 20 | 27 | 4 | 803 | 111 | 34.91 | 1325 | 60.6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 86 | 3 |
| ODI | 64 | 58 | 11 | 1667 | 106 | 35.47 | 1896 | 87.92 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 154 | 14 |
| T20I | 38 | 26 | 5 | 233 | 37 | 11.1 | 215 | 108.37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7 |
| IPL | 3 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 16.0 | 29 | 110.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bowling Career Alex Carey
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 20 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ODI | 64 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| T20I | 38 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| IPL | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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