Cameron Green's third county cricket century creates serious selection questions ahead of World Test Championship final

News.com.au

26-05-2025

Cameron Green peeled off a third county cricket century as spinner Matt Kuhnemann took six wickets in a one-off appearance and Travis Head left the IPL with a bang in positive signs for the Australian trio ahead of the World Test Championship final at Lord's.
Selection decisions loom large for Australia ahead of the clash with South Africa on June 11 as pressure grows to get Green back into the team after he missed the entire home summer due to back surgery.
Green blasted 118 in his latest effort for Gloucestershire, taking his average from eight county knocks to 73.67 from 442 runs.
Against Kent he blasted 128 and an unbeaten 67 in the same game, showing an affinity for the local conditions after making 112 in his first innings since September.
Green's been included in Australia's 15-player WTC final squad to play as a batter only and is amping up the heat on Test teammate Marnus Labuschagne, who began his county campaign with Glamorgan with a duck and managed just 23 in his latest effort.
Labuschagne has been touted as a possible opening option, with Green able to bat anywhere from three to six, as part of a batting order that will include red-hot Head, who blasted 76 off 40 balls in his final outing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL.
Head finished the tournament with 376 runs, behind only Mitch Marsh's 560 among Australians in the IPL, and will get in ample preparation in the UK with his Sunrisers not involved in the delayed finals.
The Australian Test batters aren't the only ones in form, with left-arm spinner Kuhnemann, back playing after having his action cleared following a report in Sri Lanka, ripping through the Middlesex batting order in Cardiff.
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Playing just the single game for Glamorgan with Labuschagne before joining the Australian Test camp, Kuhnemann returned figures of 6-53 as his team cruised to a 10-wicket victory.
Kuhnemann is the second spinner in the Australian squad, behind Nathan Lyon as first-choice tweaker.