It was a day when Alex Carey finally got to raise his bat aloft as a Test centurion. It was a day when David Warner walked off the MCG with his bat raised after having been dismissed off the first ball he faced. It was a day when Cameron Green batted for 157 deliveries with a fractured finger against one of the meanest bowling attacks in the world. It was a day when Mitchell Starc bowled a mean spell with a bloodied middle finger that left his trousers littered with spots of red.
All this on a day where we saw truncated play owing to the dramatic turnaround with the weather in Melbourne. To the extent that you'd have thought we'd shifted venues and moved not just to a different stadium but to a different city itself. It was also a day that witnessed a bunch of hell-raising moments at the start of it, just like we did some eyebrow-raising ones towards the end.
Amidst all of it though was the class of Carey. It's been a year of consolidation for Australia's Test wicket-keeper who was thrust into the big stage last summer in the wake of the Tim Paine situation. And there were times during the Ashes where you could see the South Australian still seemingly trying to come to grips with his elevation to Test cricket. Not that he ever looked out of place or he looked out of depth at any point.
Source: https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/125007/carey-owns-the-stage-on-a-day-of-drama-at-mcg
