Cameron Green, Australia’s rising all-rounder, has been hailed as one of the team’s future greats. He’s been around the Australian team for a while now, and while he’s put in some good performances, he’s never broken the three-digit barrier. However, that changed in the first innings of the 4th Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
The visitors have been dominating the match with the bat, having already registered the highest score of the series. Usman Khawaja has been at the helm for the Australians as he completed his maiden hundred against India. He was given the perfect support by Green, who played a terrific innings to reach the milestone.
The all-rounder joined Khawaja in the final session on Day 1 and took the match by storm. He remained unbeaten on 49 runs on Day 1 as he stitched an unbeaten 85-run stand with the opening batter. The two continued their dominance on Day 2 as they kept attacking g the spinners.
Green kept the boundaries in check and completed his first century in the post Lunch session. He was, however, dismissed shortly after his century. Ravichandran Ashwin, after toiling hard for a long time, finally got the breakthrough wicket.
The off-spinner’s tossed-up delivery down the leg side was very slow through the air. Green attempted a sweep, but it brushed against his gloves, allowing the keeper to complete the brilliant catch behind the wickets. KS Bharat took a sharp catch, and Green walked back after scoring 114 runs. He scored 17 boundaries in his 170-ball stay in the middle.
After Green’s wicket, Australia also lost Alex Carey in the same over to Ashwin, giving India their second wicket of the day. At the time of writing this article, Australia has scored 384/6 with Khawaja (164 runs in 391 balls) and Mitchell Starc (4 runs in 8 balls) in the middle. In the meantime, fans on Twitter were elated to see Green’s century.
Here is how Twitter reacted to Cameron Green’s maiden century
Future of Australia Future of MI
— $ar¢a$ti¢_Høñ£Y (@thesarcastic98) March 10, 2023
This test is going to be draw unless Australian batters shown some intent.
— N. Goswami (@Ngoswami99) March 10, 2023
Good batting by green beautiful cover drives
— Anil ravipudi stan #NBK108 #NTR30 (@balayya_vamsi) March 10, 2023
Pitch is made for a draw, if india loses this, can't watch cricket for some time.
— TimeTravelelr (@MrMindvsHeart) March 10, 2023
Fans after watching this? pic.twitter.com/GPzhVyIarA
— Aditya Ray (@Adityar16433534) March 10, 2023
Fluke century. Pitch is placid, nothing happening for the bowlers
If this was a rank turner, who knows how much he would have scored, my guess was he wouldn’t have scored a century if this was a rank turner
FLUKE century
— Aadvaith Naarayanan (@Advaith06983275) March 10, 2023
We are back to the old days of Indian Test Team, where our bowlers giving runs for funs and captain waiting for opposition to declare the innings. ? pic.twitter.com/KFVU8g7DXs
— Mohit (@CricketHolik) March 10, 2023
Preety happy to watch test getting over in 3 days…. Rather than India getting hammered in this way…..
— Shubham Agrawal (@cric_agrawal) March 10, 2023
Even 23 years old Cameron Green has an Overseas Century then there is shameless……..???
— Cricket Crazy (@CrazyinCricket) March 10, 2023
Played much better. Congratulations
— Ishaan Meet (@ishaanmeet) March 10, 2023
