Border said Green bowled faster than McGrath during his initial years.
Former Australia captain Allan Border left Harsha Bhogle and Sanjay Manjrekar laughing in the commentary box. He sledged former Australia, fast bowler, Glenn McGrath in the pre-match show for the first Test between India and Australia.
Border shared his opinion on Cameron Green, the Aussie all-rounder who made his debut on Thursday. He took a hilarious jibe at McGrath's bowling speed, who used to bowl medium pace, and said Green is probably 10 kmph quicker than him.
“He’s an exciting young talent. What I like about him is that he as backed his potential with performance. He’s been scoring lots of runs in Sheffield Shield,” Border said on Sony Sports Network.
“Lot of people have said that he’s the best they’ve seen since Ricky Ponting. You went to the academy with Ponting, so you know what a quality youngster he was and turned out to be one of the greats of the game.
So if Green is anywhere near that then we have found a really good cricketer then you throw in the fact he’s around 6 foot 6 and bowls a heavy ball.
"He’s probably around 10 ks quicker than you pidgy! (McGrath’s nickname), bowls around 140. So he’s a real deal, don’t worry about that,” added Border.
Bhogle and Manjrekar were in splits and McGrath took the banter sportingly too. “That is a proper sledge,” said Harsha.
Green received his debut cap for Australia by pacer Pat Cummins ahead of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test match at Adelaide.
(With Sony Sports Network Inputs)