Green lifts lid on secret behind India dominance

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Cameron Green has revealed however inferior tours to India allowed him to get comfy successful subcontinental conditions aft scoring his maiden Test century.

After opening the time 1 tally abbreviated of his half-century, Green was outstanding smashing 18 boundaries en-route to a Test vocation champion of 114.

Green's period came successful a 208-run concern with Usman Khawaja (180) arsenic Australia posted a formidable archetypal innings full of 480. India is presently 0-36 successful reply aft its openers negotiated a 10-over spell to extremity the day.

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After missing the archetypal 2 Tests successful the series, Green showed wherefore helium is specified a captious cog successful Australia's Test lineup, battering India's onslaught aft the location broadside had looked to beryllium connected apical erstwhile helium strode to the wicket precocious connected time one.

Green's period means helium present boasts an mean of 67.50 successful India to spell on with averages of 51.66 successful Pakistan and 34.66 successful Sri Lanka.

In an country of the satellite wherever adjacent seasoned Australian players person traditionally struggled, Green lifted the lid connected wherefore he's been capable to find specified occurrence aboriginal connected successful his career.

"It's astir apt down to a batch of practice," helium said astatine stumps.

"A batch of america inferior cricketers travel done Australia and get a accidental to get connected the MRF tours successful Chennai. I went connected 2 oregon 3 of those, truthful that was the acquisition that you can't summation successful Australia, truthful I'm incredibly grateful that we got the accidental to bash that.

"We've conscionable got a truly bully radical of players successful the changing country that evidently stock their cognition of trips they've been connected before, truthful each the accusation I'm getting from the boys is helping a lot."

Green and Khawaja batted expertly with each different successful their near-record stand, with the right-hander playing the relation of the aggressor portion the much experienced Khawaja played the accumulator.

"To beryllium retired determination with Uzzie for my full innings, helium helped maine truthful overmuch retired there," Green said.

"Obviously he's an experienced caput and has played beautifully this full series, truthful to bat with him was truly special."

Green's dismissal aft luncheon brought with it a slew of wickets for India, with Australia's last six wickets falling for 102 runs, a fig that was helped by a useful 70-run basal betwixt Nathan Lyon (34) and Todd Murphy (41).

Ravichandran Ashwin was by acold the prime of India's bowlers, taking the 32nd five-wicket haul of his vocation arsenic helium finished with figures of 6-91 successful 47.2 gruelling overs.

Australia's last wicket left India's opening brace of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill an uncomfortable play of 10 overs to bat astatine the extremity of the day.

Sharma and Gill looked assured astatine the crease, with Gill's six implicit Nathan Lyon's caput successful the last implicit a motion of however overmuch batters are inactive capable to spot the wicket.

"It's a precise bully wicket," Green admitted.

"I deliberation you've got to swallow your ego a spot (and say) if you get deed for a mates of beauteous shots, past truthful beryllium it.

"I deliberation time volition astir apt conscionable beryllium a spot of a holding relation for myself and I'll fto the spinners spell to work."

India volition anticipation that the wicket holds up for the bulk of time 3 arsenic they effort to tally down Australia's total.

As they did successful the 3rd Test, Australia volition anticipation Lyon tin tally rings astir the Indian batting bid and spin the tourists to different victory.

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