Green feels foreign in own home ground

Western Australian Cameron Green has played more red-ball cricket at Galle's International Stadium than his supposed home ground of Perth's Optus Stadium.

Which is why, after two years of waiting for a chance to play a Test in his home city, Green is asking others for advice on what the Perth wicket will play like.

"It's really weird," Green said. 

"You speak to other guys who are so used to home conditions. Like Travis Head going back to Adelaide Oval and scoring a truckload of runs. 

"Everyone expects you to do well and be used to the conditions, but I feel like some guys are more used to it than I am."

Green has played a grand total of one first-class match at Optus Stadium, making scores of five and 27 against NSW in November 2018, and going wicketless.

That is less than he has played on every other major ground in Australia, as well as Galle in Sri Lanka.

When Green does finally walk onto Optus against West Indies on Wednesday, he is unsure if the wicket will play similarly to the one he grew up on at the WACA.

"I haven't played enough cricket to really tell," Green told reporters in Perth.

"I am asking questions of Marnus (Labuschagne), who batted well a few years ago, about how he found it."

Australian players are preparing for difficult conditions come Wednesday, with Perth set to receive a burst of hot weather this week.

Several cracks ran across the pitch in a Test four years ago against India in similar heat, and there is a thought the only way to prevent that would be a heavily-watered surface that seams around early.

There was plenty of spice in the wicket in the recent T20 World Cup matches at the ground, but there has been little Test cricket to go by after COVID cruelled Perth of games for the past two years.

As for Green, he can see an upside to that, with the 23-year-old far more comfortable entering a home Test now - after a winter of major development - than he would have been two years ago.

"It's actually been a bit of a blessing in disguise," he said. 

"I would've been very nervous if one of my first games was in Perth.

"The nerves hit a bit later now. You are calmer leading into a Test series. Before I debuted I was freaking out the week before. 

"Now, you're more comfortable in what you do. You understand you can perform at this level, but it takes time to get there."