In a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney, Cameron Green hit his first first-class hundred since May 2025.
Cameron Green ends century drought
Against New South Wales at the Cricket Central in Sydney, Green made a Sheffield Shield appearance for Western Australia. This was his first first-class match since the Ashes, and will remain his last in the format until Australia’s next Test series, against Bangladesh in August.
Green did not bowl in the NSW first innings of 232, where Matthew Gilkes (51) and Josh Philippe (52) got half-centuries and Corey Rocchiccioli claimed 5-62. Resuming the second day on 33-1, the visitors lost Sam Whiteman to the fifth ball of the day, and Green walked out.
Cameron Bancroft (57) held the fort at the other end, helping a dominant Green put on 109 for the third wicket. While none of the other batters reached 30, Green continued at the other end to remain unbeaten on a 232-ball 130 (six fours, five sixes) at stumps. By then, WA were 302-7: the lead had stretched to 70.
This was Green’s first hundred in first-class cricket in nearly ten months: playing for Gloucestershire, he had ended May 2025 with 128 and 67 not out against Kent, and 118 not out and 25 against Northamptonshire in four consecutive innings. In the interim period, the closest he came to a hundred was when he made 94 against Queensland in November.
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This was the 15th hundred of Green’s first-class career: he has converted nearly half of his 31 fifty-plus scores into three figures.
Green had a torrid time at the 2025/26 home Ashes, scoring 171 runs at 24.42 without scoring a fifty and taking four wickets for 70.75 apiece. At the 2026 T20 World Cup that followed, he followed an 11-ball 21 with a two-ball duck against Zimbabwe and a seven-ball three against Sri Lanka: Australia lost both games and crashed out of the tournament in the first round.
