Green has endured five stress fractures of his lower back and last bowled in a Test in March 2024, against New Zealand. Now the Perth native is hoping to prove his reworked bowling action can play a part for Australia against England by coming through Western Australia\u2019s four-day red-ball match at the WACA, starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cCam\u2019s going really well,\u201d Voges told a pre-match press conference on Monday. \u201cHe\u2019s trained strongly for the last few weeks. He probably could have bowled last game if we really needed or wanted him to, and he\u2019s certainly going to play as an all-rounder for this game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll bat at No 4 again for us and he\u2019s got some overs to bowl, so (we\u2019re) looking forward to seeing that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got some guidelines from Cricket Australia on (how many overs). Do I want to tell that to the world publicly? Probably not. But we\u2019ll see how that plays out. I\u2019ve got no doubt from what I\u2019ve seen at training over the last few weeks that won\u2019t be an issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw it very briefly with the four overs he bowled and took a wicket (Green took 1-13 against New South Wales at the WACA in early October). So from that point of view, he\u2019s ready to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019d be great to get the overs out in the middle, win a competitive game, and that\u2019s the opportunity over this week. But I\u2019m certainly hoping we\u2019re talking about his batting as much as his bowling this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Cameron Green bowled briefly for Western Australia against New South Wales in October (James Worsfold\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Green\u2019s capacity to bowl as well as bat will have a knock-on effect for their batting lineup in Perth. If Green is unable to contribute as much with the ball, he would most likely bat at No 3 with the in-form Marnus Labuschagne, who will captain Queensland at the WACA, potentially moved into the opener\u2019s berth.<\/p>\n
The experienced Labuschagne, who was dropped during the tour of the West Indies earlier this year, has no qualms about where he makes his Test return.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will bat wherever they tell me to bat,\u201d he told the same press conference.\u00a0\u201cConsidering I\u2019ve probably played 56 tests at No 3, that would sound right (that it\u2019s his best spot) but I don\u2019t mind where I\u2019m at. It\u2019s all about team balance. There\u2019s more at play than just my position.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the differences between Green being included as a designated batter at No 3, or further down the order as an all-rounder, Labuschagne added: \u201cWe\u2019ve got a very small sample size of him at No 3. I\u2019ve played two innings with him there, and I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve had very long together those two times.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the quality of player he is. We know the ability he has, that he\u2019s got a very nice defence. For a really big, strong guy, he\u2019s got great touch and great understanding of the game. So wherever he fits in, he\u2019s got skill sets that can manage both spots.\u201d<\/p>\n
England have arrived in Perth but their preparations for the opening Test have also raised eyebrows in Australia, with a single three-day warm-up match against England\u2019s Lions \u2014 effectively the B team \u2014 later this week their sole outing.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Australia\u2019s squad will be in competitive action across three Sheffield Shield matches \u2014 with those at the WACA enjoying the perfect chance to prepare for the opening Test challenge at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe focus for us is to concentrate on us and make sure we\u2019re well prepared,\u201d added Labuschagne. \u201cWe\u2019ve got 14 out of 15 playing this week. Guys are getting ready, they\u2019re playing in competitive games. So that\u2019s what we value, but we\u2019ve done the same things on different tours where we might not play a trial game or we keep it more internal and get the preparation we need through that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a method they\u2019re using but we\u2019ll only know if it works once the series starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the Australian players involved in the current round of Shield fixtures, Mitchell Starc took 4-91 for New South Wales against Victoria, faring better than team-mate Josh Hazlewood who managed 0-54 off 18 overs. Nathan Lyon took 2-65.<\/p>\n
Uncapped Brendan Doggett claimed five wickets for South Australia against Tasmania, whose opener Jake Weatherald was dismissed for 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Green is fit and ready to contribute with ball and bat, according to his head coach at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,417,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-global-sports","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}