Green's 'biggest hurdle' revealed after IPL riches

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David Warner says Cameron Green's quality to walk extended periods distant from Australia volition beryllium the biggest situation he'll look aft receiving a monster IPL deal.

The 23-year-old Perth autochthonal was snapped up by the Mumbai Indians for implicit $3 million during the Indian Premier League auction connected Friday, making him the astir costly Australian subordinate successful the competition's history.

Warner is nary alien to the unit of large IPL deals, having plied his commercialized successful the contention for a fig of teams implicit the past decade, and helium offered immoderate cardinal proposal to the talented all-rounder.

"There is going to beryllium a batch of pressure, a batch of expectation, that's the quality of the beast erstwhile it comes to the IPL," helium said.

"When you spot that benignant of wealth thrown astir there's going to beryllium a batch of unit connected you.

"The astir important happening for Cameron, and this is simply a small spot of proposal I tin springiness him, is that we went done a four-Test lucifer series, went connected to play an IPL bid and didn't person that Ashes astatine the backmost end.

"You're going to person a agelong clip distant from location arsenic a young kid. How helium deals with that himself (is the question). He's got large enactment I'm definite with his absorption and his family. That's going to beryllium his biggest hurdle.

"It's not astir going retired determination and performing, he'll bash that, that's inevitable. It's making definite that he's successful the close framework of caput to spell retired determination and present with the Test matches, past going onto the IPL and the Ashes and the World Cup.

"There's a batch of cricket to beryllium played, truthful bully luck to each of us."

Warner suggested that it is unsustainable to expect players to play each 3 formats of the crippled with cricket's jam-packed schedule, and expects Green to springiness up 1 format arsenic helium ages.

"The happening I've recovered astir hard is having a household and playing successful each 3 formats, determination isn't capable clip connected the calendar to walk astatine location with your family," helium said.

"I deliberation Cameron Green is the cleanable illustration of a youngster coming done that is going to beryllium capable to play each 3 formats. He's going to person a large determination connected his hands successful a mates of years' clip with his body.

"Shane Watson is simply a cleanable example. You've got Ben Stokes, who gave distant 1 format (ODIs), it's going to beryllium challenging."

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