'You look at how well Greeny's played over a period of time,' Travis Head offered yesterday, 'and I think he's just waiting to burst onto the scene and make huge runs.' 'Always at you': Aussies wary of unheralded Robinson Green, meanwhile, is just four matches into his own Test career, but with a first-class average of 52.76 and the height and pace to be a difficult proposition with the ball, it seems only a matter of time before he makes his mark.ДЄnd at 22, he is the same age Stokes was when he entered his first Ashes all those years ago. Stokes has of course gone onto become one of the game's premier allrounders, and two years ago the left-hander ensured his name was etched into Ashes history with a remarkable match-winning hundred in the third Test at Headingley. So it was a pretty funny story.' Green with Graeme Swann at the WACA in 2013 // supplied

'But actually in hindsight, I reckon he saw the (14)-year-old and was like, 'I probably should block him'. And as a (14)-year-old I was like, 'Gee, I must be doing something right вЂ“ I reckon I've got him here'. 'He was smacking around all the A-Graders but he was blocking me. Ben Stokes, in his debut series, he played beautifully that game, and I got to bowl to him in the nets,' grinned Green, who had his photo taken with a host of England players that day. Head (re)start: Recalled No.5 relaxed, set for Ashes shot

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