Cameron Green celebrates his victory over Ben Duckett. Photo: Action Images/Paul Childs. flies in the outback of his native Western Australia.
The youngest player ever to hit five wickets in an innings against the Sheffield Shield, at the age of 17. The best bowler in Australia since Keith Miller, although he is now only 24 years old. The most expensive Australian ever bought by the Indian Premier League, for over A$3 million. And the last two weeks, since the final against India at the Oval, the youngest test world champion.
Greene has another superlative as relevant as any for English batsmen. Greene is the best gully fielder at the moment and possibly all time, both in terms of the percentage of chances he catches and the sheer reach he covers, being 6ft 6in tall and very flexible.
< p>When Ben Duckett directed Pat Cummins on Sunday, day three of the Ashes' first test, he was hoping for a four to the vacant third-man boundary. But it looked like a coveted flat for sale in Highgate or Hampstead. One moment there was a vacancy, the next it was gone. Green dived and scooped as low as possible to his left.
Cameron Green is back in that ravine! What a catch 👏 pic.twitter.com/g9Mv0ZbWMP
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) June 18, 2023
A green in a ravine would not have presented such an obstacle in the old days when England had batsmen who would leave the new ball alone or only push it with soft hands. But their current representatives are stubbornly fighting everything in Duckett's case — he has only eight balls «left» since he withdrew the test last winter — and almost everything in the case of Zach Crowley. It could even be said that England's first-team throw set the tone for the era of baseball, and Duckett has always excelled with horizontal shots through the dot.
Green isn't that far off to cover an area the size of a football goal, eight yards wide and eight feet high. There used to be a taller ravine fielder, and a very good one, in Joel Garner of the West Indies and Somerset; but this was in an era when white ball cricket was not widely practiced and fielders reached new heights in vaulting and diving. Garner stretched and stretched, but chose not to dive.
Ashley Mallett of Australia was another beautiful, high ravine. He was within easy reach of the England batsmen who fought off the bouncers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lilly in the 1974-75 season.
Green's athleticism allowed him to play for Western Australia while still at a private school in Perth and take five wickets out of 24 against Tasmania in his first 8.1 overs in first-class cricket. This has allowed him to score big top-notch points beyond the realm that all-rounders dream of, like his 251 for WA against Queensland over three years ago.
The highlights of this Double Hundred Greens on Youtube are over seven minutes long. His size and strength are such that when he drives, he does not need to hit the ball hard to reach the boundary, he simply maintains his form; his physical flexibility is such that he can climb onto the shortest ball and hook it; and yet, for all his height, he is so well balanced without going offside. The thud echoes around the nearly empty Gabba as Green pulls another ball into the bounding boards.
And to top it all off, Green catches just about anything that moves, including Indiana Schubman Gill's bungled shot at the Oval in WTC finals, resulting in Gill being fined, protesting against its legality.
Starting with Green. The Test debut in world cricket featured some experienced catchers such as New Zealand's Ben Stokes and Daryl Mitchell, but Green sits second on the table with 22 catches out of 26 chances for an 84.6 success rate.
The highest score. Succeed in Tests since Cameron Green's debut.
The easiest position for a close catch is the first miss when there are multiple misses: he never has to move far to the left or right because the goalkeeper and the second miss are in front of him. The hardest positions in the cordon are the slippage of the sole, be it spin or seam, where he has to go behind every edge; and the ravine, where the circled ball flies even faster.
It was a cruel passage when England was ambushed by the elements and the ball pinched the blackest of clouds. England traveled before the intervention of Green Grabber. In such brilliant moments, compared to England's bad catch, the Ashes series between well-matched countries can change.
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