Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey believes their batsmen must strike a balance between being proactive and patient when they face India’s spinners. The visitors lost the first Test in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs inside three days.

Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel took 16 of the 20 Australian wickets on a challenging pitch.

“You can fall into over-playing conditions and certain names. What you see before you go out to bat as well can change your method a bit,” Carey said on Monday.

Carey was twice dismissed playing the reverse sweep.

“I went back to batting more than anything else and reacting to what’s being bowled and trusting that method. Maybe I was a bit too keen to play a different style, but in my first Test here that’s not a bad learning to have,” he said. “Hopefully, I can find that balance along with all our players.”

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Shreyas Iyer will join India’s squad in Delhi, having been passed fit by the medical team. He missed the Nagpur Test because of a back injury.

Written with Reuters inputs