The video of Australian wicketkeeper batsman Alex Carey with his daughter is going viral. In this video that surfaced, Alex Carey’s daughter was scared because of the fireworks, but the Australian cricketer calmed his daughter down by hugging her. This incident happened on January 11 in the Big Bash League, when Alex Carey was about to take the field for Adelaide Strikers. Alex Carey had a strong performance in the Ashes 2025-26 series. He had scored 323 runs in 8 innings including one century and 2 fifties.

Father hugged his daughter, love overflowed

Before the start of the match in the Adelaide ground, the Adelaide Strikers team was about to come to the field for fielding. There are fireworks before the start of the match, but Alex Carey’s younger daughter looked scared. Seeing all this, Alex Carey came running to the field and hugged his daughter and calmed her down.

For this, Alex Carey is being praised a lot on social media. One person called him a ‘family man’ who, apart from playing on the cricket field, is also handling the responsibilities of being a father. However, a fan took this incident negatively and called for a ban on firecrackers.

The fireworks were a little too loud for Alex Carey’s daughter Clementine, who just wants Mum pic.twitter.com/vJ2oEPwq0I

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 11, 2026

Alex Carey’s storm, still the team lost

Adelaide Strikers faced Perth Scorchers on 11 January. Batting first, the Perth team had scored a huge score of 232 runs. Mitchell Marsh played a stormy innings of 88 runs for Perth. In reply, Alex Carey and Matthew Short added 93 runs for the first wicket for Adelaide Strikers. Short scored 52 runs, while Alex Carey scored 71 runs in 39 balls. In this innings he hit 7 fours and 2 sixes. Despite this innings of Carey, the Strikers team lost the match by 32 runs.

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