Maxwell, laughing:
"This bloke's going to be the f***ing best player ever."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRrChOqPFY
(Amazon Prime)
Cameron Green.
Sadly, as I predicted, Green was out LBW.K wrote:...
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.
But the LBW was close. And Green took a very safe, very important catch. And Brettig was impressed by his and Pete's "staunch morning partnership worth 40":
'Starting out with an advantage of 47, there was plenty of calm and no undue haste about the way Handscomb and Green took up their task. Only 30 runs accrued in that first hour, but you will go a long way to see better batting by a pair of Australians on so difficult a surface.
As he watched his leg-before-wicket (lbw) decision referral play out on Holkar Stadium’s big screen, Green threw his head back in exasperation when the ball-tracking verdict was relayed. Not only due to the closeness of the call, but also with foreknowledge of what may follow.'
(The Age)
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/camero ... 2023-03-10
Vid highlights:
https://www.cricket.com.au/video/camero ... 2023-03-10
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.
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.
Can prolly include the 4th innings too. Mitch has soaked up 107 balls (for 31*). With him is Green, who's faced 15 balls (for 3*). Hopefully that's the final score. Gotta love the rain!K wrote:...
OTOH, Mitch Marsh looked really good. He's looked the best of the Oz batsmen in all three innings he's played. ...
Makes selection interesting for the 5th Test. If selectors finally escape from the Cult of Warner, Marsh could open.
Fate of Ashes rests with Australia's allrounders
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mitch-m ... 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.
...
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.
...
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.
...
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."
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mitch-m ... 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.
...
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.
...
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.
...
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."
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)
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)
'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.
...
“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)
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.
...
“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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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.
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.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.