Cameron Green

Some Lesser Known Facts About Cameron Green

• Green was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney disease before birth. Doctors detected the condition when Green’s mother had a 19-week pregnancy scan.

• Since childhood, he has been careful about how much protein and sodium he consumes as part of his diet.

• In an interview, Green revealed he had to go to the hospital every week for treatment when he was a child.

  

• He grew up playing football and cricket in Subiaco, Perth.

• He used to play cricket for the Subiaco-Floreat Cricket Club.

  

• Australian cricketer Shaun Marsh was his role model.

• Green started playing cricket in the under-13s league in the 2009–10 season. At that time, he was 10 years old.

• He represented School Sport WA (SSWA) at the School Sport Australia Cricket Championships in 2013 in Perth, where his team won.

• Green also represented WA in the Schoolboys Australian Football League (AFL) in 2011 at the School Sport Australia Championships held in Canberra.

• Apart from that, he also played football as a key forward for the WA under-16 team.

  

• In 2013, he captained the Scotch College 1st XI team that won the Darlot Cup.

• He also captained Scotch College 1st XI in 2015/16.

• In 2016, Green was an honors recipient for cricket and football at Scotch College.

• In the same year, he was a part of the Scotch College 1st XVIII Football that won the Alcock Cup.

• He represented the Western Australia (WA) cricket team at the 2015-16 Under-19 National Championships.

• On 10 January 2017, he made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI against Pakistanis at Allan Border Field, Brisbane during their tour of Australia.

• He gave an extraordinary performance at the 2016-17 Under-19 Cricket Nationals. He scored 164 runs at an average of 82 and took 20 wickets in eight games. WA won the nationals by six wickets defeating ACT/NSW Country in the final in Adelaide. This was WA’s first under-19s title in 23 years. In the final, Green picked up 4-30 with the ball and then smashed 51 not out from just 23 balls and was named Player of the Match.

  

• Eventually, he was forced to choose between his two sporting loves, football and cricket. His choice became clear when he earned a rookie contract with the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) ahead of the 2016/17 Sheffield Shield season.

• In February 2017, Green made his first-class debut for WA against Tasmania at Bellerive Oval, Hobart during the Sheffield Shield. His career highlights include taking 5/24 in the first innings against Tasmania. The feat made him the youngest player to take a five-wicket haul in the Sheffield Shield.

• Green was initially selected for his bowling talent given his advantageous height (6′ 6″)  and ability to deliver fast outswing. His first 30 first-class wickets came at an impressive average of just 22.53. However, he was forced to stop bowling due to the stress fractures in his back.

• Green didn’t play first-class cricket in the 2017-18 season. He spent the 2018 winter at Cricket Australia’s National Performance Centre in Brisbane.

• In November 2019, he came into the spotlight with his unbeaten scores of 87 and 121 for WA against Queensland in the 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season. This was his maiden century in first-class cricket. He was named Player of the Match.

• After this, he was promoted up the WA order, and soon, he became a top-order player.

• In October 2020, his career best came when he scored 197 from 438 balls, against New South Wales.

• The impressive performance led to his first international call-up. He was named to Australia’s ODI and T20I squads for the 2020 India tour of Australia.

  

• On 13 January 2019, he made his T20 debut for Perth Scorchers against Sydney Sixers in the 2018–19 Big Bash League season.

• In March 2021, Green scored his first double-century in first-class cricket, with 251 runs for WA against Queensland in the 2020–21 Sheffield Shield season.

• In August 2022, he took his first five-wicket haul in the ODI format against Zimbabwe in Townsville.

• On 6 September 2022, in the first ODI against New Zealand in Cairns, he was named player of the match for scoring an unbeaten 89 (92) in a difficult run chase.

• In October 2022, Green became an injury replacement for Josh Inglis in the Australian squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup.

• In December 2022, he claimed his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket bowling in the first innings of the Boxing Day Test of South Africa tour of Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

• Green was bought by the Mumbai Indians for Rs. 17.5 crore (approximately $3.15 million AUD) for IPL 2023. He was the second most expensive overseas player in IPL auction history and the most expensive Australian player.

  

• On 21 May 2023, he scored his maiden IPL century, an unbeaten 100 off 47 balls in a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

• Cameron Green scored his maiden century in Tests (114) in the fourth Test against India in Ahmedabad during the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. However, the match ended in a draw.

• Green was a part of the Australian squad that won the 2023 Cricket World Cup and the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final.

• On 29 February 2024, he scored his second international century (174) against New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Wellington. In the match, Green and Josh Hazlewood set a record by forming the highest 10th-wicket partnership in Test cricket with 116 runs, breaking the previous record of 114 set by Jason Gillespie and Glenn McGrath in 2004.

  

• He was bought by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for IPL 2024.

• Cameron Green and Australian cricketer Tim David were schoolmates at Scotch College. David used to coach him before school.

• His sister, Bella Green, lives in Florida, US. Athletic like her brother, she used to play first-division college basketball.

• He is a dog lover and has a dog named Brownie.