Australia all-rounder Cameron Green is preparing to make a comeback as a bowler in the Sheffield shield game and the move comes as a booster to the hosts in the upcoming match with England during the Ashes.
Green has been rationed to batting since his recent arrival to play after back surgery but has steadily built up his bowling activity in practice. With Australia to play an Indian team in a white-ball series in October and November, Green suggested that he may instead commit to red-ball cricket with Western Australia in order to polish up his bowling ahead of the Ashes.
In the past when I have concentrated on Shield cricket it has been very successful. That could be the correct approach this time as well, yet when returning to bowling as well as attempting to bowl a few more overs, I get a few more overs under my belt.
Australia will be wary with regards to the workload of the player as he missed the entire home Test series against India due to an injury he sustained on the lumbar spine that led to a fracture. Green may provide an X-factor in their quest to defend the urn.
These figures support him out: Green has picked up 18 wickets in that eight matches played against England with an excellent average of 24.44 against his overall career average of 35.31.
Green has made his contributions with the bat as his bowling has been on the backburner. His abrasive 184 runs in high-scoring pitches against harmful West Indies assisted Pat Cummins team in achieving a whitewash of the series 3-0.
Green himself did not take much notice of those runs. That was probably not going to be the conditions we will be playing with here in the summer so there is not that much to take out of it, added Azhar. It was such a difficult ground of batters, just to escape the series in one entire piece was in itself a feat.
The much awaited Ashes tournament is to start in Perth on November 21.
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