Kane Richardson has been ruled out of the limited over series against Pakistan after sustaining a hamstring injury.
Cricket Australia has named Left-arm pacer Ben Dwarshuis as his replacement for the three-ODI and one T20I series set to take place in Lahore from 29th of March.
Kane Richardson sustained his injury while training in Melbourne. He was expected to spearhead Australia’s most inexperienced pace attack in more than 50 years of one-day international cricket with Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins all heading home after the final Test of the tour finishes on Friday.
Richardson’s hamstring tweak is considered minor but the Aussies are not willing to risk their fast bowler for a series that features four games in just eight days.
Dwarshuis, his replacement, has represented Sydney Sixers in BBL but is uncapped at international level. He was previously part of Australia’s T20 squad during a tri-series in 2017-18.
Jason Behrendorff, having played 11 ODI’s will lead the pace group in Richardson’s absence flanked by Sean Abbott (two ODIs), Nathan Ellis and now Dwarshuis (both yet to debut).
Adam Zampa (61 ODIs) and Ashton Agar (15 ODI’s) are the spin options while the attack will also be supplemented by seam-bowling all rounders Cameron Green, Marcus Stoinis and Mitch Marsh.
The tour will be the fourth time in the past five years that Australia will embark on a one-day campaign without the services of at least one of Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins in their squad. Two of those previous instances resulted in a 5-0 series defeat for the Aussies.
