Players like Cam Green are few and far between.

Two-metres tall with a First Class batting average in the high 40s and the ability to bowl as quickly as most frontline seamers, he is the kind of all-round cryptid usually confined to the 'create a player' mode of cricket video games.

He's the best gully fielder in the world, as good a fifth bowler as any team could hope for and a true all-formats player.

Green is so many things.

But, in Australian cricketing tradition at least, a Test match No. 3 is not one of them.

The domain of Don Bradman, Ricky Ponting and Meg Lanning, it is a position generally set aside for the most authoritative of stroke makers, pure of batting talents and natural of leaders.

Green, meanwhile, is softly spoken and understated, his movements at the crease somet

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