Jasprit Bumrah continues to be the focal point of all discussions ahead of the Adelaide Test between Australia and India that begins on Friday.

On Tuesday, keeper-batter Alex Carey said that the Australian batters are “world-class” and will find ways to negate the Bumrah threat.

“He’s obviously a fantastic bowler; (he) has been for a number of years. Our batters are world-class as well and always find ways to come up with solutions,” Carey told mediapersons.

Elaborating the home team’s plans to counter the Indian speedster, Carey said: “We’ve had a look at him (Bumrah) now. Hopefully, we can combat that first, second spell. Get him bowling a little bit deeper in the innings with an older ball.

“We saw Travis (Head) sort of counterpunch a bit (in the second innings). I trust our batters, we’ll find a way... Not only (against) Bumrah, they (India) played a couple
of other debutants who bowled well as well.”

Team unity

As Australia try to recover from their embarrassing loss in the first Test at Perth, there have been talks of a rift between the batting and bowling groups in the home team’s dressing room.

Carey shot down all such rumours. “If you ask the batters, we all want to perform better and (as) cricketers, you go out there to score a hundred and if you don’t do that, I think you’re at times disappointed.

“But we’re a very united group. We all do get the opportunity to bat and we’re all keen to continue to put those big runs on the board and I trust the guys to do that,” he said.

Carey believes the 295-run defeat in the series opener triggered a “big reaction externally”, but there was calm within the team.

“It’s quite a big reaction externally for one Test loss. Internally, we don’t feel that. We didn’t play the way we would have liked to have played.

“We know (that) over four or five Test matches, (if) we keep rocking up and playing our style of cricket, we will have the success. We’ve had that success to, I guess, call upon. We’re calm internally, we’re excited to get back out and play a better style of cricket.”

Australia have never lost a day-night pink ball Test in Adelaide. The confidence in Carey’s tone was quite prominent.

“We are excited. We take a lot of confidence in our record in pink-ball cricket — it doesn’t mean we will have the success, but (with) our methods, our style of play and
the experience we have in this group, we’ll bounce back from Perth,” an upbeat Carey claimed.