{"id":299767,"date":"2025-11-21T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:29:12","slug":"the-ashes-2025-alex-carey-dismissal-by-ben-stokes-mark-waugh-comments-day-one-at-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299767\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025 | Alex Carey dismissal by Ben Stokes; Mark Waugh comments; day one at Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Ben Stokes<\/a> ripped through Australia’s order, Alex Carey<\/a> looked like he was the great white hope.<\/p>\n

Then came a moment he’d love to forget.<\/p>\n

Carey was on 26 off 24 balls in Stokes’ sixth over and looked the most comfortable of all Australia’s batters. <\/p>\n

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At the top of his mark to bowl his third ball, Stokes looked at his third man, Brydon Carse, and was bemused that he was out of position.<\/p>\n

He put his arms in the air in frustration and ordered him to be squarer.<\/p>\n

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Ben Stokes gestures to Brydon Carse. \u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

“Captain’s not happy, he wants that third man to be squarer,” Adam Gilchrist observed on Fox Cricket. <\/p>\n

The next ball was full and straight, pushed to mid-on for no run.<\/p>\n

For the following delivery, Carey gave himself room, but Stokes followed him with a short ball.<\/p>\n

Australia’s last hope guided it to third man and let out an immediate gasp. Carse barely had to move and swallowed it while Carey punched his bat in frustration.<\/p>\n

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Alex Carey punches his bat in frustration.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I can’t believe it, 10 minutes to go on day one, a man out, you’ve just got to get through to stumps … he knew it straight away,” Mark Waugh said.<\/p>\n

Carey’s dismissal summed up the day. There was a combination of genius bowling and smart tactics, coupled with ridiculously dumb batting.<\/p>\n

The wicket-keeper batter wasn’t the only victim of Stokes’ genius.<\/p>\n

Cameron Green was batting similarly to Carey and was on 24 off 49 as Stokes brought his mid-off and mid-on straighter.<\/p>\n

Green was no doubt expecting a straighter delivery; instead, it was full and wide with the Aussie edging behind.<\/p>\n

“That’s the reason he pushed mid-off and mid-on straighter, he wanted Cameron Green to feel for the ball, to try and hit that gap at cover,” Mike Hussey explained.<\/p>\n

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Ben Stokes orders his fielders to be straighter. \u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

It was another moment that showed the genius of Stokes.<\/p>\n

Earlier, he’d brought himself on when Travis Head and Green combined for a partnership after it was 4-31.<\/p>\n

He snared Head, then sent Green, Carey, Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland on their way to claim a five-wicket haul.<\/p>\n

Stokes could very well be the difference in this series, and while he’s on the field, England has a chance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ben Stokes ripped through Australia’s order, Alex Carey looked like he was the great white hope. Then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-299767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}