Alex Carey’s drop of Tom Latham in the final 15 minutes of play ended a day that placed the wicketkeeper in sharp focus.
As the Hagley Oval pitch became steadily more friendly for batting and the deeper New Zealand dug in, the dimensions of another Australian missed opportunity to kill off a Test match became apparent.
It would have been harder still if not for captain Pat Cummins’ incisive spell in the last hour, finding a way through Kane Williamson and breaking a sequence of eight consecutive innings where the former Black Caps captain had converted a 50 into a century. “I’m happy with Alex’s option there, get that 45 guy in and make it very tough for the bowlers to bowl,” Labuschagne said. “Spin at that stage of the game was where we needed to score our runs, but that’s how the game goes.“We’ve got the six best batters in the country out on the field and that’s what’s important. It’s not gelling perfectly yet, the sample size is getting bigger and we’re getting more information, but we’re liking where Greeny’s at at four, he’s batting really well.
“Playing your own way is taking the information that you need to take in, assessing the conditions and then building your game plan around that,” Cummins had said. “It’s not ‘this is how I’m going to play in all conditions’. We can just manage those tempos a little bit better.”These words seemed to be crafted very much for Carey in particular, so his Christchurch exit to Phillips will give the selectors pause ahead of India’s visit next summer.
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