Australian star Cameron Green likely set for back surgery that could rule him out for the Test summer

Australia’s plans for the summer have been blown to bits by the news they will likely be without all-rounder Cameron Green for their series against India, but a Shield gun has put his hand up to replace the star.

Red-hot all-rounder Beau Webster is hopeful of pressing his international credentials via Australia A with back surgery for Cameron Green likely to create a vacancy in the Aussie Test side.

Green is strongly considering going under the knife in a move that would almost certainly rule him out for the summer.

A fortnight after the Australian all-rounder hurt his back bowling in England, Cricket Australia is still yet to publicly confirm a management plan for the West Australian.

However a final decision is expected on Friday, with Green firming to need surgery in a bid to ensure a better long-term prognosis.

Green’s probable absence for the entire Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series - and potentially the two Tests away to Sri Lanka at the back end of the summer - leaves twin holes in the Australian XI given his status as a No. 4 batter and fourth pace option.

The trickle-down effects of Green being unavailable are many, beginning with a heightened reliance on Mitch Marsh’s seam overs. It also paves the way for Steve Smith to return to No. 4 and for a specialist opener to be selected to partner Usman Khawaja.

Marcus Harris, Matt Renshaw and Cam Bancroft have been the three perennial challengers for an opening spot.

Australia bowler Cameron Green’s summer could already be over. Picture: Getty

The door has also been nudged ajar for all-rounders Webster and Aaron Hardie to press respective claims. The latter notched a century for Tasmania against Victoria on a docile Junction Oval wicket on Thursday, two days after Vics Harris and Peter Handscomb made centuries of their own.

NSW opening sensation Sam Konstas is himself making a late move to be included in the Australia A setup for two matches against India A beginning in Mackay on October 31.

The squad for that series, as well as for the three one-day internationals against Pakistan, is due to be released early next week.

Konstas became the first teenager since Ricky Ponting in 1993 to post two centuries in the same Sheffield Shield match, making the most of an early life from Alex Carey to reach 105 at Cricket Central on Thursday.

The late-blooming Webster had made a strong case to be picked in the A squad. The 30-year-old was the Shield’s leading run scorer last season while also taking 30 wickets primarily bowling medium-pace, having bowled part-time off-spin for much of his career.

Could Beau Webster replace Cameron Green? Picture: Getty Images

He enjoyed similar success during a stint in the UK with Gloucestershire over the Australian off-season.

Webster said he hadn’t yet heard from national selectors about the A games but that Green’s situation was not lost on him.

“It’s hard to ignore. It’s everywhere, all the media, whether he’s going to bowl or not or can bat or not or surgery or things like that. But there’s a lot of other good all-rounders around the country,” Webster said after play at Junction Oval.

“I hope it (happens), I’d love to (play for Australia A), I think I’m in good form and can hopefully press my case there if I do get an opportunity. But just trying to pile on as many runs as I can now for Tassie.”

As a nationally contracted player of genuine pace and who regularly bats up the order, Hardie would be the closest match to Green on paper. He but was ruled out of Western Australia’s first Shield match with a quad injury after returning from Australia’s white-ball tour of the UK.