Cameron Green performs a shot throughout the Indian Premier League, 2023. File
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Cameron Green’s game-changing potential is effectively documented amongst his Australian teammates, who really feel that his presence in the dressing room has acquired a brand new that means following his success in Indian sub-continent in the final 4 months.
Green scored his first Test century throughout his maiden Test tour of India earlier this 12 months. He hit an aggressive 114 of simply 143 balls in the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad in March this 12 months.
Green carried on his type in this 12 months’s IPL, scoring 452 runs from 16 innings at a strike charge north of 160 for Mumbai Indians, which additionally features a 47-ball ton that took the five-time champions to the play-offs.
“His (Green) presence around the around the team has definitely changed after being a part of that IPL and after scoring that hundred in Ahmedabad,” senior Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon advised cricket.com.au forward of the World Test Championship Final in opposition to India.
“He’s growing in confidence and being himself more, coming out of his shell a little bit more around the team.
“I believe that simply comes from with the ability to grasp in there and play the IPL and be around the likes of (Mumbai and India Test captain) Rohit Sharma and these guys to study off them,” he added.
The WTC Final between India and Australia will be played at The Oval starting Wednesday.
Australia opener Usman Khawaja, who witnessed Green from close quarters during their 208-run stand for the fifth wicket in Ahmedabad in March this year, feels that knock completely transformed the youngster.
“I do know what it is like – it took me 9 or 10 (goes) to get my first hundred over the span of like 4 years and I do know what the sensation was to have the ability to obtain that,” he said.
“After I acquired my first one, the floodgates simply opened and it is at all times the case. You get the primary one and the following few simply occur since you’ve been there, you’ve got performed it. And I believe as teammates, all of us knew that.
“He’s (Green) such a legend, he’s such a nice guy. You only want the best for him, so I really enjoyed it,” Khawaja added.
