‘White-ball cricket is important but…’ – Australia’s all-rounder Cameron Green may skip Pakistan tour to focus on red-ball cricket ahead of India series in December
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Australia’s head coach Andrew McDonald said that star all-rounder Cameron Green may remain out of the limited overs series against Pakistan to prepare for the Test series against India in December.
Instead of playing against Pakistan, Cameron Green can play in Australia’s Sheffield Shield. The same strategy was adopted before the current Test series against New Zealand and Green proved it right by playing an unbeaten inning of 174 runs in the first Test match. Australia had registered a big victory in this match.
Green played 27 Tests for Australia and scored 1347 runs
Cameron Green was not included in Australia’s squad for the T20 series against West Indies and New Zealand. Instead of this, he played a Sheffield Shield match for Western Australia against Tasmania, in which he prepared well for the first Test match against New Zealand by scoring an unbeaten 103 runs.
Australia’s coach McDonald praised Cameron Green for his decision and said thanks for accepting team management’s suggestion. He said ‘Keeping any player out of international cricket is a big decision. That too when he is capable of being included in your best eleven. So, I am happy that Green accepted our suggestion and made a great comeback after that’.
“There won’t be any this is what we’re doing with every player. But we’ll pick and choose what that looks like, based around international cricket, Mcdonald added.
Mcdonald further said, “I was glad that he embraced that when we had that conversation with him. And the return on it was pretty immediate. It’s not always going to be like that. So even if he failed here, we felt like that was his best preparation. So don’t always judge a result as making it right or wrong.”
Australia will tour England in the upcoming September. They will play five ODIs and three T20s and the same number of T20 matches in Pakistan. After this, a five-Test series will be played between India and Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
