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    Home / News / Sports News / Christchurch Test: Alex Carey accomplishes this feat with match-winning 98*
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    Christchurch Test: Alex Carey accomplishes this feat with match-winning 98*
    Alex Carey hammered his second-highest score in Tests

    Christchurch Test: Alex Carey accomplishes this feat with match-winning 98*

    By Gaurav Tripathi
    Mar 11, 2024
    09:37 am

    What's the story

    Alex Carey played a once-in-a-lifetime knock as Australia stunned New Zealand in the second and final Test in Christchurch to clinch the series 2-0.

    The wicketkeeper-batter rescued his side following a top-order collapse and ended up scoring an unbeaten 98 off 123 balls, a knock laced with 15 boundaries.

    It is now the second-highest fourth-innings score by a keeper in a winning cause.

    Knock 

    An innings of substance from Carey

    Chasing 279, Australia were off to a terrible start, having been reduced to 34/4.

    Meanwhile, Carey joined Mitchell Marsh (80) in the middle with the scorecard reading 80/5.

    The duo reignited Australia's hopes with a 140-run stand. Carey continued to bat well after Marsh's departure and eventually steered his side home.

    He also added 61* runs with Pat Cummins (32*) for the eighth wicket.

    Feats 

    Carey scripts these records

    As mentioned, Carey scripted the second-highest score by a keeper in the fourth innings in a winning cause.

    He is only behind his compatriot Adam Gilchrist, who smoked a match-winning 149 versus Pakistan in the 1999 Hobart Test.

    Rod Marsh (91 vs England in Manchester, 1972) is the only other Aussie keeper with a 90-plus score in the fourth innings.

    Stats 

    A look at Carey's stats 

    Carey's 98* is now his second-highest Test score and his highest away from home.

    The southpaw has raced to 1,339 runs in 32 Tests at an average of 31.88.

    While this was his eighth fifty, he owns a solitary century in this format (111 vs South Africa, 2022).

    Against NZ, he has raced to 125 Test runs at an average of 41.66.

    Summary 

    How did the game pan out?

    NZ were folded for 162 after being put on to bat as Josh Hazlewood claimed a fifer.

    Australia posted 256 in reply as Marnus Labuschagne made 90.

    Kane Williamson (51), Rachin Ravindra (82), Daryl Mitchell (58), and Tom Latham (73) helped NZ post 372 in their second outing.

    Chasing 279, Australia were off to a shaky start before Marsh and Carey steered them home.

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