Young star rushed into World Cup after injury

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Young weapon all-rounder Cameron Green has been sensationally called into Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad.

The 23-year-old has been jettisoned into the 15-man campy to regenerate Josh Inglis, who suffered a freak wounded connected Wednesday, 3 days retired from their archetypal crippled against New Zealand successful Sydney.

Inglis was playing play connected Wednesday erstwhile a nine snapped and divided his manus open.

The wicketkeeper-batter has been withdrawn from the World Cup arsenic a result.

For Green, though, the bizarre incidental hands him a spot successful the squad and a apt World Cup debut.

The towering right-hander has spent the past 2 years cementing his spot successful Australia's Test mediate order, wherever helium is proving a revelation with some bat and ball.

But helium lone cracked the nationalist T20 squad successful April, erstwhile helium made his debut against Pakistan.

He has played 7 planetary T20 matches to date, hitting scores of 61 and 52 against India.

There were pundits questioning wherefore helium was near retired of Australia's World Cup squad successful the archetypal place.

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Cricket large Mark Taylor spoke to Wide World of Sports astatine the clip and said Green would get his accidental earlier excessively long.

"I person nary uncertainty helium volition get his crook and helium volition person his time.," Taylor said.

"There's nary uncertainty he's got the crippled for it. He's a hard-hitting middle-order player, but arsenic he's shown helium tin bat up the order. We tin spot what helium tin bash with the ball, and he's an fantabulous fielder.

"If that doesn't marque you a campaigner for T20 and one-day cricket I don't cognize what does."

The Aussies conscionable the Black Caps astatine the SCG connected Saturday.

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