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Healy: Green shouldn’t play if he’s not ready to bowl in first Test
SEN • November 7th, 2025 11:15 am
Ian Healy doesn’t think Cam Green should be selected for the first Test if he can’t bowl.
The all-rounder has only bowled four overs this season after picking up some side soreness, and that’s without acknowledging his back surgery last October.
While he’s been tipped to bowl 10 overs a day in WA’s upcoming Shield game against Queensland at the WACA, that will no doubt test the 26-year-old, who hasn’t done a heap of bowling since that big injury.
But if Green can still bat despite not being up to bowling, much as he was in the recent Test tour of the West Indies, Healy thinks Australia should look elsewhere with Beau Webster able to do both at No. 6.
With that in mind, he thinks that the all-rounder holds the reins when it comes to the final makeup of the first Test XI.
“Guess who's holding the reins? It’s Cameron Green,” Healy said on SENQ Breakfast.
“Cam Green, will he bat three and bowl, bat six and bowl, bat and not bowl or simply not play?
“Cameron Green needs to bowl 10 overs a day in the Shield game, and that’s all he has to do in the Aussie team to support the work of those three fast men.
“But he’s only bowled four overs this season, and at this stage, I’m saying Cameron Green shouldn't be in our Test team if he’s not bowling.
“In the Shield game, he’s going to try and emulate a Test workload, I’m assuming. He’s coming off back surgery, but that’s got nothing to do with a side strain and side soreness, which he’s got.”
If Green doesn’t play, Healy envisions Marnus Labuschagne batting at No. 3 and Jake Weatherald opening the batting.
If Green does play alongside Beau Webster, he sees Labuschagne opening with Usman Khawaja.
“There'll be a shuffling of the deck chairs,” Healy said.
“If Green doesn't play, Marnus goes to three and Weatherald opens.
“I’m of the opinion as well that Marnus can open as well with the form and mindset he’s in, but you’d rather have him at three.”
