A fast bowler who has been on the fringes of Australia's ODI and T20 teams for some time, Kane Richardson bowls with pace, aggression and a well-directed yorker. Although he has struggled to gain much traction at first-class level for South Australia, Richardson is effective in the shorter forms and in 2016 signed with Royal Challengers Bangalore, his third IPL franchise. He had been one of the big buys of the 2013 IPL when Pune Warriors bought him for USD700,000, although he ended up playing only three matches for them for two wickets at 50.50.

His ODI debut came at his home ground, Adelaide Oval, in 2013, but he suffered the ignominy of being ordered out of the attack by the umpires for repeatedly running on the pitch. His breakthrough international performance came in January 2016, when he picked up five wickets in a Man of the Match effort against India in Canberra. He played Australia's next ODI in New Zealand but did not play another for 18 months before returning on the 2017 ODI tour of India. He became an ODI and T20I regular thereafter until he was left out of the 2018 T20I tri-series in Zimbabwe following an expensive tour of England. But an outstanding BBL in 2018-19 for his new franchise Melbourne Renegades, where his excellent death bowling helped them to the title, got him back on the selectors radar. He went on the two ODI tours of India and the UAE in the lead up to the 2019 World Cup but just missed out on the final 15-man squad.
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