Alex Carey believes experience all over the world and becoming more accustomed to Australia's bowlers is behind his marked improvement as a Test wicketkeeper.
Carey is on track to break the record for most dismissals in a Test series, having taken 20 of 22 chances presented to him in the Ashes.
Data last week showed Carey's influence over this series, with the Australian having cost his side only 50 runs in missed dismissal chances while conceding 20 byes in three Tests.
In contrast, England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow has cost England 191 runs through his eight misses, while also letting through 46 byes.
Carey's career has come full circle in this series, after enjoying a breakthrough tournament in the one-day format in Australia's 2019 World Cup campaign in England.
The left-hander starred with the bat on that tour, but made some errors behind the stumps.
It was a similar story on Test debut in the 2021-22 Ashes, with decision-making when balls went between him and first slip the main concern.
This tour there has been no sign of that, with the likes of Ian Healy noting he is more confident and operating with softer hands.
"You've got to work hard and continue to try and improve in certain areas. You get used to some certain bowlers as well," Carey said of his keeping.
"Naturally as well your body can change. You work what is natural and what you try and manufacture at times.
"Not too much has changed (technically).
"Going from certain places around the world, subcontinent spins and stays a little lower, Australia it bounces, here in England we talk about the wobble.
"You just try to have a pretty solid base to try and tinker a little bit at times."
Carey said this series had been among the most challenging, given the conditions with the ball often swinging after the bat and seaming unpredictably.
England's style of play had also made it feel more like a white-ball match, with the hosts rarely leaving the ball and forcing Carey to put more miles in his legs getting to the wickets.
"We have seen some variable bounce as well on some wickets that have been drier than we have seen in the past," Carey said.
"That first Test in Edgbaston, I was running up to the stumps a lot.
"I said to the slips, it is a one-dayer basically. We have seen the amount of kilometres in our legs, we do a fair bit of work."
