{"id":547571,"date":"2026-03-18T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:44:12","slug":"shock-cameron-green-report-over-fiery-journalist-interview-wa-coach-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547571\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock Cameron Green report over fiery journalist interview, WA coach responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Western Australian coach Beau Casson has responded to talk of a spat between Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and a journalist during WA\u2019s Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at Sydney\u2019s Cricket Central.<\/p>\n<p>WA clung on for a draw on Tuesday, ending the final day\u2019s play nine wickets down in a nailbiter, but it has been the action off the field that has caused the biggest stir.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch Live &amp; Free coverage of the 2026 Marsh Sheffield Shield with Kayo Freebies | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/competition\/Competition:6thd74h9oa0pm8qx15hhzfrq6?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Register free now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fox Cricket revealed earlier this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/domestic-cricket\/think-this-fool-could-never-win-sacked-coach-trolls-nsw-board-as-they-interview-his-replacement\/news-story\/8c3ae739fdf7e41f87c3401801d9b941\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">outgoing NSW coach Greg Shipperd paraded the Dean Jones Trophy &#8211; from last week\u2019s one-day final triumph &#8211; past the room where the NSW board were interviewing Shipperd\u2019s replacement<\/a>, former Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, after the third day\u2019s play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/breaking-aussie-cricket-great-officially-unveiled-as-new-blues-coach\/news-story\/5f0b08c1a5fd45158c70440c8daf549e\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Haddin was officially announced as the new NSW coach<\/a> on Wednesday, but the visitors were also tangled up in off field drama.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Morning Herald\u2019s chief sports writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/why-are-you-out-to-get-me-green-s-dummy-spit-raises-questions-ahead-of-4m-ipl-stint-20260316-p5oawf.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tom Decent published an article on Tuesday evening outlining a run-in he had with Green<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/cameron-green-issues-reminder-to-test-selectors-with-statement-shield-ton-live\/news-story\/b9849a6fb51447234e5e0b542584e4d2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Green scored a century in WA\u2019s first innings<\/a>, his first red-ball ton since a county stint with Gloucestershire last year, but Decent wrote that the 26-year-old was angered by a question about his poor form across the summer.<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA &#8211; MARCH 15: Cameron Green of West Australia celebrates and acknowledges the crowd after scoring a century.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Decent alleged that Green stormed off \u201cin a huff\u201d, muttered \u201cwaste of time\u201d and asked the journalist \u201cwhy are you out to get me?\u201d after the interview wrapped up in only 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Green batted in every position from No.5 to No.8 in Australia\u2019s middle order during the Ashes and struggled to find the right answer &#8211; scoring 171 runs at 24.42 across the five Tests.<\/p>\n<p>He then followed it up with a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign &#8211; scoring 24 runs at 8 &#8211; as Australia failed to advance from the group stages following losses to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Casson, who Decent said came over to apologise after Green walked off, did not believe the situation was as feisty as it has been made out to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the question, from Cameron\u2019s point of view, was not quite where it needed to be and he wanted to talk about the day\u2019s play,\u201d the former Australian spinner told SEN\u2019s Tom Morris and Bharat Sundaresan on The New Ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t play out that way and it\u2019s probably a storm in a teacup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019ll have plenty more media interviews, Cameron, to be able to discuss where he\u2019s at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be able to put that to bed and we\u2019ll be able to discuss more things moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest cricket news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=CricketArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Still Standing&#8217;: Shipperd on NSW win | 02:30<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the interview, Casson stressed that the animosity levels were not overly high and that the depiction of the situation does not match Green\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say a confrontation,\u201d he said. \u201cI think just misunderstood with the question asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were incredibly happy to have Cameron back. He played really in the first innings. Great to see him get some many balls (faced) under his belt. I know he\u2019s had a thirst to do that &#8211; to be able to make the hundred and spend a lot of time out in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenge for him over the last little period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s important for people to know, he\u2019s got a wonderful personality and he\u2019s a lovely, soft man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to allowing that to come to the fore in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I wouldn\u2019t say it was a confrontation, but it was nice to get an understanding of where things laid and what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>13\/06\/2008 SPORT: Australian bowler Beau Casson delivers a ball as he makes his test cricket debut, during the second day of the third test match between the West Indies and Australia June 13, 2008 at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. AFP PHOTO\/Emmanuel DunandSource: News Limited<\/p>\n<p>In Decent\u2019s article, he said his only question that did get answered was his opener about how pleasing it was Green to be back in the runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s obviously a great feeling,\u201d he replied. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a really good start the first three days, so hopefully we can get a win tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Western Australian coach Beau Casson has responded to talk of a spat between Australian all-rounder Cameron Green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,271005,2095,271006,1724,64,63,689,203236,91939,136008,138039,17879,264196,107269,18747,18762,10404,38712,740,1950,45893,271004,2105,18763,15695,60457,121950,673,13392,2041,271007,677,17069,12540,85,1210,670,271008,271003,1144,269789,3439,41283],"class_list":["post-547571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-africa","tag-alleged-journalist-spat","tag-america","tag-animosity-levels","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-all-rounder","tag-australian-bowler","tag-australian-spinner","tag-australian-wicketkeeper","tag-barbados","tag-beau-casson","tag-brad-haddin","tag-bridgetown","tag-cameron-green","tag-caribbean","tag-chief-sports-writer","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-eastern-africa-sub-saharan-africa","tag-final-triumph","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-greg-shipperd","tag-jason-mccawley","tag-mark-metcalfe","tag-media-interviews","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-south-wales-blues","tag-north-america","tag-nsw-board","tag-oceania","tag-sam-konstas","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sydney","tag-test-cricket-debut","tag-tom-decent","tag-tom-morris","tag-watch-live-ampampamp-free","tag-western-australia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}