Royal Challengers Bangalore recently traded Cameron Green from Mumbai Indians ahead of the IPL 2024 auction. Green will power up RCB’s middle order and make an effective role for the team with both bat and the ball.
RCB will pay Cameron Green as much as Mumbai Indians bought him for the IPL 2023 auction. RCB’s director of Cricket Mo Bobat recently talked about the reason why they chose Green to be part of the RCB squad.
Why RCB traded Cameron Green from Mumbai Indians?
“He’s the ideal fit for us in that middle-order power role. He’s a high-quality, skillful and powerful batsman. He’s got the game against both pace and spin. He’s got international experience across formats and I’m sure he will enjoy batting at the Chinnaswamy. So, seeing him do that will be really exciting. He’s also a fantastic bowler and he bowls with pace and bounce, which were certainly attributes we were looking for particularly in our home conditions. Let’s not forget what an exceptional fielder he is. Some of the catches he has taken in recent times fielding at gully is seriously impressive”, answered Mo Bobat, Director of cricket, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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“If I go back to mid-morning yesterday [Sunday], we were pretty clear on our retention and release decisions and we had communicated it to all of our players. We were pretty clear on what that meant for our auction priorities. So, I felt like we were going to have a fairly quiet afternoon. If you look at the retention and the decisions we made, we’ve obviously got a really strong top order and we wanted to enhance the middle order by adding a little bit of power”, he added.
“With a couple of hours off the retention and release deadline, we were made aware of Cameron’s potential availability for trade, which we had to take seriously. So, having spoken to the guys at MI, we got a small group of us together at our end. We thought we better discuss this and debate the pros and cons of trying to make this trade work, which is what we did for a little bit of time,” Mo said.
“Essentially, we were trying to weigh up whether we take the risk of someone else picking up Cameron Green now, which could have happened before the deadline…hoping he makes it to the auction as a released player, but somebody else could’ve picked him up, which was obviously the case. Even then if you get to the auction, there’s no guarantee that you will get him at the auction because you can easily be outbid,” he added.
Royal Challengers Bangalore retained players: Faf du Plessis (C), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar
Royal Challengers Bangalore released players:Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav
