Cameron Green.

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Maxwell, laughing:

"This bloke's going to be the f***ing best player ever."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRrChOqPFY

(Amazon Prime)

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His Man-of-the-Match 77 in Galle was a much better (much, much harder!!) innings, but well done to Cam Green for his 1st Test century, coming in his 20th Test.

Vid highlights:
https://www.cricket.com.au/video/cameron-green-maiden-test-century-india-australia-fourth-test-day-two-video-highlights/2023-03-10

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Batting still work in progress. Doesn't help having less time adjusting from IPL.

But...

brilliant gully fielding. Two brilliant one-handed catches, one high to right, the other low to left.

Shastri said he could be/become the greatest gully fielder.

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And, next Test, another brilliant low left-handed catch.

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Sheesh... Great fielding. Promising bowling. Batting still a work in progress.

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‘It’s a bit of a stretch’: allrounder Cameron Green a reluctant Test opener

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/it-s-a-bit-of-a-stretch-cameron-green-a-reluctant-test-opener-20230714-p5dof2.html

'Now Green ... has declared himself fit for the fourth Test at Old Trafford, ... one of the solutions being floated is for him to replace Warner at the top of the order, particularly given that Green has opened for Australia in white ball cricket.

“I think it’s a bit of a stretch,” Green replied when asked if he could transfer his skills from the shorter formats to Test cricket.

“I think being an allrounder – probably Shane Watson is the only one you come to mind doing that – I’m not too sure how much he bowled.”

The answer is that Watson, who spent 79 of his 109 Test innings batting in the top three for Australia averaging almost 40, rarely bowled more than a handful of overs following his promotion to open the batting during the 2009 Ashes tour.

But Green is concerned about the impact the strain of bowling may have on his batting up the order, even at number 4, where he usually slots in for Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield.

“I think everyone enjoys it,” Green said of batting up the order. “You get more time in the middle. It might be a bit tougher as an allrounder when you have to bowl your 15 to 20 (overs) a game and then also bat No.4. But have to wait and see.”'

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Another scratchy batting innings from Green.

OTOH, Mitch Marsh looked really good. He's looked the best of the Oz batsmen in all three innings he's played. England were lucky to bowl their best balls to him. Wish the balls they got him with were wasted on Warner, Marny or FTB Smith, who were going to get themselves out anyway.

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Fate of Ashes rests with Australia's allrounders

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mitch-marsh-cameron-green-allrounders-australia-team-ashes-spin-root-day-five-survive-old-trafford/2023-07-23

"It would have been difficult to script a better entrance than the one Cameron Green made as he strode down the stairs from the changerooms to the middle of Old Trafford to join Mitch Marsh on Saturday.

With Joe Root's name being sung by a Manchester crowd whose spirits had been lifted by the prospect of an England victory under gloomy clouds, a referendum on the allrounders' selection alongside one another was essentially underway.
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Their combined first-innings contributions had been 36 runs with the bat, 2-121 from 24.4 overs with the ball and a mystery injury to Marsh that, after returning to the field having spent the first 75 minutes of day three off it, forced Green, the world's best gully catcher, to be stationed elsewhere to ensure Marsh's bursts of running were limited.
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That the fate of the Ashes are now in the oversized hands of Green and Marsh, whose respective futures in this team are at an intriguing juncture, is fitting.

For Marsh ... a legitimate second coming as a Test player looks certain.

From being the last man selected for this Ashes tour, having half-jokingly labelled the trip as a "UK holiday" as Green's understudy, the 31-year-old now shapes as one of Australia's most indispensable players for the final day of this Test, the ensuing Ashes series finale at The Oval (fitness pending), and beyond.

In four innings since coming in after Green missed the Headingley Test with a hamstring injury, Marsh has scored 228 runs at 76, a significantly better return than Green's 103 runs at 20.60.

Marsh also pitched in with the wicket of Zac Crawley, currently the series' leading run scorer, in both innings of the third Test, before puzzlingly not being asked to bowl at him again until he had reached 112 in this ongoing match.

Green has struggled for fluency with the bat, while he has been asked to perform a physically demanding role for many of his spells with the ball, with Cummins eager to utilise his almost two-metre frame for long periods of bowling short.
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What seems uncertain, given Australia's struggles without a spinner in this fourth Test, is whether there will be room for both in a Test XI ever again."

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Not great running yourself out not grounding the bat.

And this:

'Most troubling of all is the downturn in the returns for Green, who after accepting the aforementioned auction price to play for Mumbai Indians in the IPL has spent only a handful of days at home in Perth since January. Sage observers of Green have noticed the development of a few bad habits with both the bat and the ball.'

(Brettig, The Age)

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'From the moment Green was bought by Mumbai ... there were concerns that he would now be spending an enormous amount of time on the road playing cricket in a huge year for the men’s national team.

As a consequence of Green’s IPL nomination, he has already spent more than 30 weeks away from home, the majority of that time in India.

Even during the Ashes series in England, Green was showing signs of physical and mental fatigue, and close observers of his batting and bowling have noticed technical bad habits starting to creep into his methods, in addition to the kinds of mental mistakes he did not make while sculpting a first Test century in Ahmedabad in March.
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“Even the last couple of summers, it’s one of my first kind of thoughts whenever I bowl him is: we don’t want to burn him, he’s young, he’s vulnerable,” Cummins had said. “I have been on that side.

“It has been a real huge win for from the medical side of things to have him [Green] play as much cricket as he has over the last couple of years. And fortunately, he can fall back on his batting even if he’s not bowling heaps.

“Now he’s in and around three formats, it becomes even more important. He is someone who loves playing, so even when he goes back to WA we have got to manage that because we have got 15 Test matches in the next six months plus World Cups and lots of cricket.”'

(Baum and Brettig, The Age)

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Like Marny, played an important innings v. England, but wasted the chance to put heat on the Oz selectors.

Also like Marny, had mixups with batting partner. Twice (with Stoinis). Marny three times (with FTB). Looks like all the Oz batters need to work on their communication with batting partners.

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First thing he needs to do is get fitter. He's a big baby faced bugger (I've stood next to him) carrying unnecessary weight.

Get leaner and fitter, he has all the talent in the world but so far he's not delivering as he should be able to.

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