Australian all-rounder Cameron Green is excited about the match-up against Joe Root in the upcoming Ashes 2023. The right-arm pace bowler dismissed the England batter twice during the 2021-22 Ashes Down Under and Green became Australia’s lead all-rounder in Tests. He played a key role in the Aussies’ victorious World Test Championship (WTC) campaign where they beat India in the final at The Oval. Root, meanwhile, has scored 49 runs off 119 balls which came at a strike rate of 41.17 across eight Test innings against Green.
Naming Root as a certified “world-class” batter, Cameron Green said in a video released by Cricket Australia (CA): “Obviously you want to get the best players in the world out and Joe Root is definitely that. I think it just probably came down to him thinking, ‘ Maybe it is a chance to score a few runs.’ I was happy enough to bowl a couple of nice balls. Obviously, he is a world-class player. He has dominated in England for the last couple of years. So, I am looking forward to the challenge.”
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However, Cameron Green has been in sublime form over the last few months. He had a great debut season with the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the 2023 Indian Premier League (IPL) and started his England tour with a solid outing in the WTC final as well.
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“Especially as a bowler, you look forward to come over here with the swing, I think normally when I bowl in Australia, it is not doing too much. So, I am pretty excited that there is something that I can use over here. A few of the guys talk about it swinging a bit too much. So I think just a skill set-up with a wobble seam, just playing around with all that I think,” he concluded.
