In Australia this summer, duty-free halls at international airports have been emblazoned with shots of Cameron Green selling high-end watches alongside Ash Barty.

Green was very visible across the home Ashes summer in parallel television ad campaigns, and even sat down for a glossy interview with Esquire.

Ash Barty and Cameron Green in an advertising campaign for Rado watches.

The appearances, the adverts, the crossovers with Barty, an undeniable legend: all of these pointed to Green's status as a Big Deal in Australian cricket. Among contemporaries, it has been the captain Pat Cummins who's most often occupied similar real estate in major ad campaigns and luxury men's magazines.

About the only thing missing from this picture, however, is arguably the most important. Green's recent performance for Australia has been spotty at best; at worst, his development appears to have stalled quite a way below his expected ceiling.

Against Zimbabwe on Friday night, Green should have been the key man to break the back of Australia’s T20 World Cup chase in Colombo. Instead, his second-ball duck was the moment the early loss of Josh Inglis became a collapse, as Tim David and Travis Head closely followed to turn 1-24 into 4-29 and a defeat that puts Australia on extremely shaky ground for the rest of the pool phase.

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