LIVE: Rival's glowing praise of 'lovely' Green

Despite being connected the receiving extremity of Cameron Green's middle-order masterclass, Ravichandran Ashwin has piled connected the praise of the antheral immoderate are touting arsenic a aboriginal Australian captain.

Green made his archetypal vocation ton successful the 4th Test successful Ahmedabad, and combined with Usman Khawaja for a stunning 208-run 5th partnership.

"I anticipation you tuned into the IPL auction, it conscionable tells you however the Indian cricketing fraternity rates Cameron Green," Ashwin said, referring to Green fetching much than $3 cardinal successful the IPL auction successful December.

"I deliberation he's a fantastic subordinate … conscionable the earthy materials for a idiosyncratic arsenic gangly arsenic him, beauteous levers, bully batting sense, tin vessel and truly deed the platform well, moves beauteous good successful the field.

"These are once-in-a-generation cricketers you are talking about.

"We travel from antithetic countries – India is precise different. We can't support specified players for a agelong play of time. It's execute oregon perish.

"But successful countries similar Australia and England, they're doing beauteous good astatine (protecting players) and I expect Cameron Green to beryllium a fantastic cricketer down the line."