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Jake Weatherald had an indifferent summer partnering makeshift opener Head while Steve Smith, Nathan McSweeney, Sam Konstas and Marnus Labuschagne have all had opportunities since the end of the Khawaja-David Warner combination.<\/p>\n
A jam-packed schedule sees Australia facing Bangladesh in northern Australia twice in August, then touring South Africa for three Tests in October, before four Tests against New Zealand over the peak home summer period, and then a five-Test tour of India and the 150th Anniversary Test against England in early March.<\/p>\n
The report states Australia coach Andrew McDonald brought up the opening vacancy when discussing Green\u2019s red-ball future.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsman retired, so there is a gap that presents at the top,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played an eight-batter team if you want to call it that, with Beau Webster doing the spin duties. So there\u2019s opportunities within our team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs (Green) the person? We\u2019ve got a long time to understand what our team looks like, then hopefully we hit the ground running for those possible 21 Test matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe red-ball conversation happens further down the track. We\u2019ve got Cam starting in early July in Brisbane, we\u2019ll start to build that out. He didn\u2019t have the summer he would\u2019ve liked last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australian batsman Travis Head (R) celebrates scoring his century against England with teammate Cameron Green (L) on the first day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test match in Hobart on January 14, 2022. (Photo by William WEST \/ AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
It was suggested in the report the other option would be moving Head back down the order, either to No.3 or his old spot at No.5, though it\u2019s unclear who the two openers would be in that scenario.<\/p>\n
Australia begins an ODI series against Pakistan on Saturday night with Green to play a key role following several key retirements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an element of, OK, where do we want to position people?\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlenn Maxwell\u2019s not in the team, do we need some power down in the finishing role? Is Cameron a four? \u2026 he has been up and down the order, so there\u2019s more questions than answers at the moment, but we\u2019ll try a few things.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis impact with bat, ball and then in the field balances out our team. While at times he doesn\u2019t perform at a level that the external expect, you\u2019ve got to understand the sum of all parts and what he does in terms of balancing our team and making others better.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes we critique the individual\u2019s performance, and we don\u2019t look at the overall function of the team. So he\u2019s incredibly important with that all-round skill set in white-ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green takes key wickets in KKR win | 01:02<\/p>\n
McDonald recently acknowledged that while Green \u201chasn\u2019t got the runs that he would like\u201d, he contributes to the team\u2019s success in several ways, arguing that he shouldn\u2019t be judged solely on his batting. The Victorian also pointed out it\u2019s \u201cincredibly difficult\u201d for all-rounders to maintain consistency across all three formats, claiming \u201cvery few have actually done it\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got high standards with the way he critiques his performance, and I think the external have also got those high standards,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing lacking in how we are judging him is the sum of all parts, and what he does to the team in structuring it up, his fielding positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t got the runs that he would like, we\u2019re not hiding behind the fact that he hasn\u2019t performed at a level that we think he can. He\u2019s working incredibly hard on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green has been trialled in multiple positions since returning to the national set-up in June last year, batting at No.3 during the World Test Championship final and the West Indies tour before returning to the middle order for the Ashes. Gradually sliding down the order as the series progressed, he batted at No. 8 during his most recent Test appearance, January\u2019s New Year\u2019s Ashes contest at the SCG.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to find a position for him, he\u2019s been up and down,\u201d McDonald added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s no excuse, but that is something that we\u2019re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Green will be considered as Australia\u2019s newest Test opener, partnering with Travis Head in attempt to squeeze…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-701769","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\/701769","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=701769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}