Player Profile
When it comes to T20 cricket, Chris Green has been there, seen it, done it and bought the t-shirt.
The one-time Australia international all-rounder enjoyed an impressive first season with Lancashire last summer, impressing in the Vitality Blast and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup but also playing briefly in the Rothesay County Championship.
In 18 matches across the formats, Green claimed 20 wickets with his off-spin and hit 380 runs from the lower middle order, including a 50-over century against Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl in August.
Green, 31-years-old, subsequently signed a new two-year contract at Emirates Old Trafford, covering 2025 and 2026. That is primarily for the Vitality Blast, though includes the other competitions subject to availability.
Not only is Green a canny off-spinner and a more than useful lower order batter, he is a superb fielder.
Green has captained Sydney Thunder in Australia’s Big Bash, though not in the most recent campaign as David Warner took the reins as they reached the final.
Of course, that means Green has come from Thunder to Lightning.
Look down his career stats and it is clear this is a cricketer who has made his name in T20 cricket. He is currently sat on 236 career appearances and could make his 250th in a Lightning shirt in 2025.
Born in South Africa, he debuted for New South Wales in List A cricket in late 2014 and then for the Thunder in early 2015. But he did not make his first-class debut for his state until late 2022.
A year later, Green played his solitary T20I for Australia against India in Rajpur.
He has an impressive first-class record of 44 wickets and 709 runs in 19 matches, including a best of 6-83 with the ball, and he has a List A five-for and century to his name.
In T20 cricket, he has taken 203 wickets, including a best of 5-32 and has hit one half-century.
Green is definitely a gun for hire, a player with a whole host of clubs on the CV across 14 different countries, including the likes of India, Pakistan, the Caribbean and England.
He has spent a lot of time in England, be it in league or county cricket. He has played league cricket in Surrey and Essex and represented both county second teams as well as Middlesex.
Lancashire represents Green’s third Blast team having played for Middlesex in 2021 and 2022, following on from playing for the Birmingham Bears in 2019. He claimed a hat-trick and took a five-for whilst with Middlesex.
While Green was born in South Africa, his father’s birth country, he holds a British passport given his mother is from Essex.
Both his parents were professional tennis players. His mother, Lisa, reached the second round at Wimbledon in 1987, while father Warren also played at Wimbledon and reached the third round of the doubles tournament that year.
It, therefore, will not surprise you to hear that Chris is also a talented tennis player but chose cricket as a junior.
He is a T20 title-winner and has captained almost 50 matches - both with Guyana Amazon Warriors and Sydney Thunder.