England skipper Jos Buttler came up with a funny banter towards Australia’s Cameron Green during the primary ODI at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday. The keeper-batter asked the towering all-rounder to perform well, with the IPL auction coming up in the future.
The incident happened during the 40th over of Australia’s innings when Green had just reached the crease. With left-arm spinner bowler Liam Dawson bowling the over, Buttler said the in his words, “Big auction coming up, Daws”.
It was good of @josbuttler to remind Cam Green about the upcoming IPL auction 😂
Textbook stuff this 👌 pic.twitter.com/bkLbdXmUQ4
— Cricket on BT Sport (@btsportcricket) November 17, 2022
The Australian cricketer is likely to be one of the newest picks in the IPL 2023 auction set to arise on December 23. Green’s appearance in T20 cricket happened during the 3-game T20 series against India in September when he belted the ball all over the place after coming up at the top of the order.
The 23-year-old scored 118 runs in 3 games with 2 fifties and a strike rate of 214.55. Green is also a handy bowler, able to extract steep bounce to unsettle batters, and is a gun fielder.
Australia dominated by 3 wickets against Jos Buttler-led England
Australia took a 1-0 lead in the 3-game ODI series against England in Adelaide with a commanding 6-wicket victory. Batting first, the tourists struggled primarily as Pat Cummins and Mitchell Statc made earlier inroads.
Buttler, who was in brilliant form in the T20 World Cup, perished for 29 after a 52-run playing partnership with Dawid Malan. Malan beat his 2nd ODI ton as his 134 set the hosts 288 to chase.
A convincing win for Australia as their top three batters all registered half-centuries. #AUSvENG
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 17, 2022
The total proved to be poor, though, given the opening partnership of Travis Head and David Warner, who give in team 147 runs in under 20 overs. Steve Smith then kept the energy going and got Australia over the line with an unbeaten 80.
Although Malan took home the performance of the Match award. The 2 teams will play the 2nd match on Wednesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).