Cameron Green.

[Donny]

Perhaps Alex Carey should be the #6 for a while, as Cummins and Starc are pretty capable batsmen, at 8 & 9.

I'd not be too concerned about his batting form, if he keeps claiming the likes of Joe Root and Ben Stokes, when bowling.

Oh, and already snapping up good catches, in the gully.

[K]

[stui magpie]

Green is so much better when he stops thinking about defense and just plays the game. Once he got his rhythm he was really good.

This kid will be a star with bat and ball for a long time.

[K]

[Pies4shaw]

[K]

Nice ball from Green to bowl Crawley today.

[K]

G. Chappell:

"... Cameron Green is full of promise, but will need to fulfil that with the bat sooner rather than later, for his own peace of mind. As an aside, while I can’t blame him for taking the money on offer from the IPL, I wonder whether it is a good career choice for his development as a batsman? It will put a lot of pressure on his young body with virtually non-stop cricket coming up.

Mitch Marsh made a similar choice early in his career and has yet to realise his potential as an explosive middle-order player who could bowl some quality overs in Test cricket. Glenn Maxwell is another whose enormous Test batting potential has remained unfulfilled due to the demands and effects of T20 cricket."

(SMH)

[K]

His batting is work in progress... But his bowling is coming along nicely...

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Green's shifting priorities bely enviable bowling prowess

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/cameron-green-bowling-priorities-first-test-five-wicket-haul-australia-south-africa-boxing-day-mcg/2022-12-26

"When Cameron Green took his second five-wicket haul in just his fifth first-class match back in 2018, suggestions the giant teenager might have a future as a frontline Test bowler were by no means outlandish.
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That Green needed a further four years and 43 first-class games to celebrate his third five-for in first-class cricket – and his first in Tests – on Boxing Day underscores just how the priorities of the in-demand allrounder have changed.
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Just four games after he had run through the Tigers with the ball in Perth back in that 2018 Sheffield Shield clash, Green had his breakout match with the bat when he scored unbeaten knocks of 87 and 121 to save a four-day match against Queensland.

The hype over Green only escalated as he amassed five centuries and a first-class average around 50 by the time he won his first Test cap at the beginning of the 2020-21 home summer to face India.
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But the fact he now has now registered Test and ODI five-wicket hauls before scoring the maiden international century he so desperately craves only underlines just how important a weapon with the ball he can be for Australia."

[K]

cricket.com.au, 28 November:

'"I had a few sessions on the bowling machine basically trying to change my contact point," Green said. "In T20 cricket, you're meeting the ball so far in front of you, so you get that full swing.

"To try to rein it back and hit the ball under your eyes (is difficult). I had a few good sessions basically just playing the defence shot and just getting your balance right and being able to leave the ball – that felt weird.

"It's a challenge for all guys that do chop and change (formats). I'm just getting exposed to it now."
...

"It feels like you're playing a different game, playing white-ball cricket to red-ball cricket,"...

"It feels like you need a few hours to just really get back to the basics.

"I use my dad to throw 60-kilometre (per hour) half volleys for a few hours. It's getting back to the basics, getting your timing right – not facing Mitchell Starc bowling 140 (kph) at your back hip."'

[K]

Pretty amazing if they play Green as a specialist batsman (as Cummins said).

Would show a lotta faith in him.

[piedys]

[Donny]

Yep. When completely fit - to bat, bowl and snaffle catches in the gully - he's a lock, at #6.

[Pies4shaw]

[lazzadesilva]

[K]

'Cameron Green has declared himself "100 per cent ready to go" to play his first ever Test in India, as Australia hope the allrounder can simultaneously bolster their misfiring top-order and add firepower to their bowling attack for the final two Tests of the series.
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The sweep shot, the stroke that got Australia in trouble in their collapse of 8-28 in Delhi, was Green's major weapon as he scored a Test-high 77 in Galle to push the tourists to a memorable victory.
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Whether Green employs the sweep as liberally as he did in Galle will rest on the conditions for the final two Tests.

"That's probably the benefit out of watching the first two games, you get a pretty good look at it from the sideline without having too many emotions from being in the game," he said.

"In Galle it was a really bouncing wicket, and here it's not bouncing as much. That's probably just another bit that I'm trying to learn about my game, trying to read the conditions and what to do in different conditions.

"That's what's been nice about watching the first two games – you can work out what's the best approach, and then I think we just have to wait to see what we get in Indore."'

(cricket.com.au)


[Dunno that just watching on the sidelines is gonna help. Wouldn't be surprised if Green's out LBW. But he can't bat worse than the current mob. And he bowls well. And catches well, unlike FTB Smith, who's dropping a world record number of catches on the subcontinent.

Nice to be reminded Galle was bouncy. 'Cos Oz have collapsed in Galle and Nagpur and Delhi. So looks like it doesn't matter what the conditions. Oz will collapse. And FTB fanboys will whinge about fair spinning pitches.]