Alex Carey and Marnus Labuschagne relive dramatic catch at the Gabba Ashes Test

Australia pulled off some very good catches in their eight-wicket win in the day-night Ashes Test in Brisbane, but the most dramatic one had to be the one where wicketkeeper Alex Carey made a diving effort while nearly colliding with Marnus Labuschagne.

England were 264 for 7 in their first innings when Gus Atkinson top-edged a pull off Mitchell Starc. Both Carey and Labuschagne ran backwards for it and, at one point, they were shoulder to shoulder, but somehow Carey held on to the ball even as he fell.

After the victory, the two players sat down to chat about the catch.

"I don't know what you were thinking, but it went up, and I was like, in my mind, okay, Alex, you'll catch," says Labuschagne. "And then I was running towards it, and I couldn't see you on my periphery, because as you saw, I ran a little bit wide, and then I looked, and I saw you, and I was like, oh, I don't think you're going to get there, and then I started coming back at the line of the ball, and then…"

"It could have been carnage," says Carey.

There must have been relief that neither the catch was muffed nor either fielder injured in the process.

"I almost pushed it out of your hand," Labuschagne says. "He [Carey] had the biggest smile on his face, and that was a cool moment."

"Only us two sort of knew what was going on," Carey laughed.

Just to add to the dramatics, the umpires reviewed the dismissal to check whether the ball had hit the Spidercam wire on its way. If it had, then it would have been deemed a dead ball.

The next morning Labuschagne took a screamer himself, diving and taking a one-handed catch to dismiss Jofra Archer and end England's innings at 334.