Kane Richardson

A pace bowler who was often on the fringes of Australia's ODI and T20 teams, Kane Richardson's main calling cards have been his skills at the death and an excellent yorker.

Although he struggled to gain much traction at first-class level for South Australia, Richardson was very effective in the shorter forms and in 2019 was a late addition to the ODI World Cup squad. He had stints with three IPL franchises, starting with a USD700,000 deal from the Pune Warriors in 2013 although he only played three matches for them.

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 player-of-the-match effort against India in Canberra.

His last ODI came in 2020 but he remained a frequent member of T20I squads for a couple more years, including at the 2021 T20 World Cup although he didn't play a game in Australia's title-winning campaign, or the home edition in 2022. A year later, he was called up as a replacement for Spencer Johnson in the T20I series in India after the 2023 ODI World Cup, but only played a solitary game.

By then he had relocated to Queensland, but was left off the state's list ahead of the 2023-24 season although remained a regular in the BBL.