3 players who can replace Cameron Green in Australia XI for Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25

Cameron Green will miss the next six months of action at least as he is set to undergo a lower spine surgery.

Australia have been given a massive jolt ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 as all-rounder Cameron Green has been ruled out of action for at least six months, if not more, due to a stress fracture in his lower back.

This is Green’s fifth such injury and he has decided to undergo surgery this time which will take six to nine months to completely heal. The all-rounder will have screws and a titanium cable fused into his lower back to stabilise the fracture and prevent future occurrences.

This means that Cameron Green has been ruled out of the five-match home test series against India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025.

This injury to Green has opened up a new conundrum for Australia as their other seam-bowling all-rounder in their preferred top six, Mitchell Marsh, is already having his bowling workload managed.

Green had cemented his place at the No. 4 slot with a century in Wellington earlier this year but Steve Smith is set to take back that spot, as confirmed by chief selector George Bailey.

In this article, we will look at three potential replacements for Cameron Green in Australia’s XI for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.

3 players who can replace Cameron Green in Australia XI for Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25:

Marcus Harris

32-year-old Marcus Harris seems to be the frontrunner to replace Green in the XI. If he makes good showings against India A before the start of the test series, then he will be close to sealing his place in the side.

His test record is mediocre – average of 25 in 14 tests – but an average of 39 in 166 games as an opener in first-class cricket in Australia is decent. In his latest first-class match in the Sheffield Shield, Harris recorded scores of 143 and 52.

Cameron Bancroft

Cameron Bancroft has strong backing from experts and fans. He had long been seen as the fall-out guy from the 2018 ball-tampering saga but the right-handed batsman has bounced back strongly in domestic cricket.

Bancroft has a vast experience of 162 first-class matches, in which he’s scored over 10,000 runs at an average of 39 with 29 centuries and it will keep him in good stead when the Australian selectors sit to finalise their squad.

In the Sheffield Shield 2023/24 season, Bancroft was the second-highest run-scorer, averaging 48 in the competition with three centuries and four fifties in 10 games.

Sam Konstas

19-year-old Sam Konstas has emerged as a young sensation in Australian cricket recently. The youngster from New South Wales has started the Sheffield Shield 2024/25 season on a thunderous note by recording scores of 152 and 105 against South Australia.

In five first-class matches, Konstas averages 51 and he has been named in the Australia A squad to face India A. He could be fast-tracked into the Australian test side as Cameron Green’s replacement.

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