Australia's wicketkeeper Alex Carey said that the team is a “united group”, and he is confident that their “world-class” batters will come up with better plans to counter India’s pace threat Jasprit Bumrah in the upcoming pink-ball Test in Adelaide, starting from December 6.
With their backs against the wall, India came out all guns blazing in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series opener at Perth to win by a massive 295 runs with Bumrah (5/30 and 3/42) ripping apart Australia's batting in each innings.
The heavy margin of defeat left Australia looking for answers as their batters flopped collectively, leaving their famed bowling attack with a lot to do.
"He's (Bumrah) a fantastic bowler; (he) has been for several years. Our batters are world-class as well and always find ways to come up with solutions," Carey said.
"We've had a look at him now. Hopefully, we can combat that first, and second spell. Get him bowling a little bit deeper in the innings with an older ball," maintained Carey.
"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 played a couple of other debutantes who bowled well as well,” Carey said.
After Australia was set on an improbable 534 to win, Josh Hazlewood had invited the media to ask their batters how they planned to go about in the second innings, sparking rumours of a rift between the batting and bowling groups.
Carey, however, declined there was any tension in the dressing room.
"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," he said.
"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,” Carey added.
Carey said Australia's resounding loss at Perth sparked a "big reaction externally" but maintained that the team will stick to its processes.
"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 the method does work," Carey said.
"We're calm internally, we're excited to get back out and play a better style of cricket and we've got that opportunity come Friday," he added.
Carey did not want to draw much attention to the last contest here in which India was shot out for their lowest-ever Test total of 36.
"There are amazing days in cricketing history but we don’t expect to go out there and do that again. We have a process and a plan that we try to execute and whatever happens, happens. I was not here for that Test match," he said.
Australia have never lost a pink ball Test in Adelaide they have only lost once in day and night fixtures.
"We are excited. We take a lot of confidence in our record in pink-ball cricket — it doesn't mean we will have success but (with) our methods, our style of play and the experience we have in this group we’ll bounce back from Perth," he added.
The two teams will take on each other in the second Test, starting here on Friday.
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