Jasprit Bumrah gave a ‘Special’ message to Cameron Green to boost his Confidence ahead of his surgery

A “special” message from Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah on the eve of Cameron Green’s back surgery gave the Australian all-rounder the much-needed reassurance about his decision to go under the knife.

Green had suffered a stress fracture last year. While the injury could have healed naturally over nine to twelve months, he chose to undergo surgery in October.

“Jasprit Bumrah reached out the night before I was getting surgery. He was in the middle of a Test match in India,” Green told reporters.

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“Just a few things like that are really special and makes you feel a lot better about it. To get someone like him to reach out and then to watch him during the summer, to see how good he is obviously post-surgery, filled me with a lot of confidence,” Green told reporters.

“The main reason for (the operation) was to shave down some bone – I’ve obviously had a bit of trauma in my L4, and extra bone had just developed on that part of the spine,” Green told cricket.com.au’s ‘Unplayable Podcast‘.

“By doing that, it forced my spine not to be able to bend as well, and it was probably smashing up against this new bone that wasn’t helping it flex. That put a bit too much pressure (on the L4 vertebrae) that I’d actually broken the facet joint on the other side, which was quite rare for a back injury,” he added.

Green is expected to play the WTC Final against South Africa, starting this week, as a specialist batter. He heads to the marquee Test on the back of three centuries in five county cricket matches for Gloucestershire.