{"id":573028,"date":"2026-03-29T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:32:10","slug":"ipl-news-2026-cameron-green-blocked-from-bowling-for-kolkata-knight-riders-says-ajinkya-rahane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573028\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL news 2026, Cameron Green blocked from bowling for Kolkata Knight Riders, says Ajinkya Rahane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Green<\/a>‘s Indian Premier League<\/a> captain says Cricket Australia<\/a> is blocking the competition’s richest player from bowling.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Aussie all-rounder made his debut for Kolkata Knight Riders and scored 18 before his team lost by six wickets to the Mumbai Indians on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

The Knight Riders posted 4-220 before the Indians produced an IPL-record chase to clinch victory.<\/p>\n

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Questions were asked of Kolkata’s bowling following the shock loss, and captain Ajinkya Rahane was asked specifically why Green was not used.<\/p>\n

“The question you need to ask to Cricket Australia,” Rahane said before the interviewer awkwardly responded, “oh, well OK, we’ll leave it at that”.<\/p>\n

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Kolkata Knight Riders’ Cameron Green plays a shot during the Indian Premier League.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Wide World of Sports has contacted Cricket Australia for comment.<\/p>\n

The Knight Riders won a bidding war at the IPL auction late last year and secured Green with 252 million rupees ($4.17m AUD), which is a record for an international player in the Twenty20 competition.<\/p>\n

Rahane clearly wants his superstar import to be able to bowl as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

“I think when hopefully Green starts to bowl soon, the combination will be slightly different,” he said following the loss.<\/p>\n

“At the moment, we have to see the balance and who can bowl well for us. Batting-wise, as I said, we batted really well, but finding that balance with the ball is really important.<\/p>\n

“So, hopefully, Green starts to bowl soon, [and] then we can find out whether the combination will be OK.”<\/p>\n

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Cameron Green.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Green has been on limited duties since having back surgery last year.<\/p>\n

He didn’t bowl at all during the World Test Championship final against South Africa, or in any of the three Tests against the West Indies following that.<\/p>\n

He was used sparingly during Australia’s Ashes campaign and bowled less than 62 overs in total across the five matches.<\/p>\n

He bowled sporadically during Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign and wasn’t used by Western Australia in his sole Sheffield Shield match this year, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Green scored a much-needed century against NSW in that match, but made headlines with a bizarre stoush with a journalist at the SCG<\/a> when probed about his lack of form in recent times.<\/p>\n

Rahane and the Knight Riders may be asking why their $4m man is being held back by Cricket Australia in the world’s richest cricket league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Green‘s Indian Premier League captain says Cricket Australia is blocking the competition’s richest player from bowling. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-573028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573028","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=573028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}