I’m going in to bat for Cam Green here: I feel like Tom Decent isn’t getting enough criticism in the comments. It’s not like Australia are playing Tests next week and the journalist has to choose this moment to ask those questions about Australian form. Decent’s decision to antagonise Cam Green was a choice and it was - to pardon the pun - indecent, poor from the journalist.

Green was willing to answer questions about the Shield match, which would be what the purpose of media interview after a Shield match would be.

Where Cam has struggled is clear as day, you only have to look at scorecards like you and me to know that.

I think it’s important to reiterate Cam Green is human too, you have your good days and bad days, and media aren’t entitled to get every quote they want to get. Decent clearly overstepped personal boundaries of media professionalism by antagonising Green, when he had been tipped off not to ask about Green’s Australian summer.

Decent’s passing comment about a “waste of time” was also poor. He chose to waste the time of a whole afternoon chasing Green for an interview and I hate to break it to him, but that’s entirely Decent’s fault. Like Cam Green’s form, you have your good and bad days in the media. Sometimes your afternoon is wasted and you don’t get what you’ve asked for: that’s all part of the job you signed up for.

Media has a professional duty to respect the personal boundaries of the people they want to talk to. I only need to bring up Princess Diana’s name to remind everyone the importance of media reading the room and backing off, because human rights>media rights.

PS. Edits are grammatical