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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Brendan Foster

Cameron Green remains Australia’s golden child but the blessing has become a curse

Australia allrounder Cameron Green has underwhelmed during the Ashes against England as pressure mounts on his place in the cricket Test XI
Australia allrounder Cameron Green has underwhelmed during the Ashes against England as pressure mounts on his place in the cricket Test XI. Photograph: Graham Denholm/CA/Cricket Australia/Getty Images

Bazball might be dead, or at least on its last legs, but before its demise it appears to have bewitched cricketing prodigy Cameron Green with its high-risk, at times mindless aggression.

Some of the young allrounder’s premeditated shots during the Ashes have made England wunderkind Harry Brook look like their unpretentious former opener, Geoff Boycott.

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