Michael Carberry guides one past Ryan Carters at the SCG. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) Source: Gareth Copley / Getty Images
VETERAN opening batsman Michael Carberry has played himself further into the England Test side with another solid innings.
The left-hander made 50 as England beat an Invitational XI by seven wickets at the SCG on Saturday.
It followed Carberry's unbeaten 153 against Australia A in Hobart a week or so ago.
The form of the 33-year-old has allowed England to move talented youngster Joe Root down the order away from the new ball.
Carberry, whose only Test was against Bangladesh in 2010, has made runs in all three lead-up matches on this tour, with half-centuries either side of his Hobart hundred.
However they have been against modest attacks on flat wickets.
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Experienced cricketers who have seen him play believe the step up to a faster, bouncier Gabba pitch against a quality Australian pace attack will find him out.
Certainly Australia A wicketkeeper Tim Paine made no secret of the fact that they believed Carberry had an obvious weakness, no matter how diplomatically he put it.
"We thought we were probably half a sniff around that gully region if you bowl the right length to him," Paine said during the Australia A match.
Craig McDermott is not convinced that Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will bowl in the first Ashes Test.
"He is a class player, he is opening the batting for England and they are a very good side.
"If he does play in the Ashes he will be hard to get out but I do think there is an area there definitely where if you stack your gully region, at some point you will get a chance."
Carberry's only failure on tour was in the first innings of this match, although he does open the face and glide fast bowlers to gully on a semi-regular basis.
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He had an intriguing battle with rookie leg-spinner James Muirhead bowling into the footmarks outside the left-hander's off stump.
A couple of deliveries bounced and turned alarmingly, with one going past Carberry's chest and another flicking his shoulder on the way through to wicketkeeper Peter Nevill.
Given Muirhead is only 20 and has played just one first class match it was no surprise he struggled for consistency plying his difficult craft.
Ironically it was one of the young leggie's more ordinary deliveries which claimed the wicket of Carberry when he skied a short ball to be caught at mid-wicket, giving Muirhead the first two wickets.
He gives the ball a mighty rip, as England captain Alastair Cook found to his detriment.
Cook was on 21 when he rocked back to cut a ball from Muirhead only to watch it turn viciously, crashing into the left-handers off-stump.
Muirhead should have had a third wicket when Jonathan Trott on 17 attempted to flay a full, wide ball through the covers and edged it to Aaron Finch at slip. It flew at an awkward height and Finch failed to hold it.
Trott could have been run out a short time earlier when Kevin Pietersen left him stranded mid-pitch.
Pietersen was bowled for six playing across a full ball from Chris Tremain which darted back.
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