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Before his departure, Green was nearing his eighth Test half-century having scored 45 runs off 57 balls with seven boundaries. (AP Photo)
With Australia ending the second day of the second Ashes Test at Brisbane on 378 for 6, the Steve Smith led Australian team were ahead by England by 44 runs in the first innings with four wickets in hand. Earlier in the day, Australia were once placed 291 for 3 before they lost wickets of Cameron Green and Steve Smith in one over with Green getting clean bowled to a Brydon Carse yorker followed by Smith being caught by Will Jacks near the boundary. Former Australian opener David Warner has called Green’s tactics as ‘baffling’ apart from his style of keep moving around as ‘ridiculous’.
“It’s baffling, you’re six-and-a-half foot tall, it’s ridiculous to keep moving around like that and playing white-ball style cricket. But when you’re so far away from your stumps, if he does (bowl) at the stumps you’re not going to be able to reach it, which was his downfall. Every single ball, if you showed the bowler back, anyone with half a brain would go at the stumps,” Warner said on Fox Cricket.
Before his departure, Green was nearing his eighth Test half-century having scored 45 runs off 57 balls with seven boundaries. The 26-year-old all-rounder has so far two hundreds and seven half-centuries in his Test career and is currently ranked 16 in ICC all-rounders Test rankings, having undergone a back surgery in October last year. He had resumed bowling in a Sheffield Shield match in August this year and was subsequently named in the Australia squad for the Ashes. Prior to his dismissal. Green had earned praise from former England skipper Michael Vaughan, who labelled him as a ‘perfect no.5”. Green had earlier batted at number three spot during Australia’s tour to West Indies earlier this year but has been batting at number five for Australia this Ashes..”I don’t see him as a three, but he looks perfectly made to bat at five, particularly if he’s going to bowl overs as well. I think, if you’re going to bowl it’s not easy to go out there straight away, and I think his technique will get challenged with the newer ball. A bowling attack in its third or fourth spell, he’s destructive. He’s the perfect five,” Vaughan told Fox Cricket.
Australia are 1-0 ahead in the Ashes after winning the opening Test at Perth. After England posted a first innings’ total of 334 runs with Joe Root scoring his 40th Test hundred and maiden hundred in Australia, Australia were placed 378 for 6 in 73 overs at the end of the second’s day. With the score once at 291 for 3, Australia looked on their way towards building a huge first innings’ lead before Green and Smith’s fall in one over led them to 292 for 5 followed by Josh Inglis’s dismissal later in the day. Former Australian opener Mark Waugh termed the fall of two wickets as a false sense of security by Australia. “I think they may have been lulled into a false sense of security. At 3-291 England were down and out, and maybe the Australians just relaxed and now there are two new batsmen in the middle.” Waugh said on Fox Cricket.
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