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Playing for keeps: Carey in box seat to succeed Paine – cricket.com.au

Redbacks gloveman included in a Test squad for the first time and now looms as the next man in line to take the wicketkeeping duties long term

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South Australian Alex Carey has been all but “rubber stamped” by selectors as Tim Paine’s wicketkeeping successor with his call-up to the Australia Test squad for next month’s Qantas tour of South Africa.
Carey will fill the role of back-up gloveman against the Proteas, as selector Trevor Hohns reaffirmed the national selection panel’s faith in Paine, the incumbent ‘keeper and captain who came under heavy criticism at the back-end of Australia’s recent 2-1 series defeat to India.
And with 33-year-old…

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