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Cameron Green ideally has to bowl to play ODIs – Langer | Justin Langer says it would be ideal if Cameron Green bowls in white-ball

Australia’s latest pick for their Test squad, Cameron Green, has garnered a lot of eyeballs before his debut match. Greg Chappell described Green as the best batting talent that the country has seen after Ricky Ponting and can head into the squad this summer.

National Coach Justin Langer feels that he will be part of the ODI only if he bowls a few overs well. “He hasn’t had the white-ball experience to come in as a pure batsman but if he can bowl a few overs, my gosh he becomes a good prospect. But Test cricket is different. He’s earned the right to play Test cricket on his batting. I love watching him bat. For such a tall batsman, he’s got so much time”, Langer said in his statement.

Green has just returned from a second back stress fracture and bowled for Western Australia. He has put in intensive work to tweak his action to ease the stress on his body while retaining the same pace. The youngster will slowly but surely step up his workload in the nets while training with the limited-overs squad in Sydney ahead of Australia’s ODI series opener against India next Friday night, said CA.

“The results I’ve had in four-day cricket are definitely a lot better than what I have shown in T20s. If I don’t play, I’ll get a lot of experience and hopefully take a lot out of it. There’s probably no better place to keep learning and evolving your game than around world-class coaches and players”, Green said to Cricket Australia.

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