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| Full name | Kane William Richardson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-02-12)12 February 1991 (age 34) Eudunda,South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armfast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 201) | 13 January 2013 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 March 2020 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 71) | 5 October 2014 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 28 November 2023 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008/09–2021/22 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2016/17 | Adelaide Strikers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Pune Warriors India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Rajasthan Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016; 2021 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017/18–present | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Birmingham Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022/23– | Queensland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kane William Richardson (born 12 February 1991) is an Australian internationalcricketer who plays domestic cricket forQueensland andMelbourne Renegades.
Since 2013, Richardson has played international cricket forAustralia in bothOne Day Internationals andTwenty20 Internationals, and as a teenager, he played forAustralia's Under-19 team, winning the2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup with them. Richardson was also a member of the Australian team that won the2021 T20 World Cup.
Richardson is a right-armfast bowler fromSouth Australia. He has struggled over the years for consistency in first-class matches, but is widely regarded as awhite ball specialist due to his successes in the shorter forms of the game. In addition to being a skilled bowler, he is a competent batsman and an athletic fielder.
In May 2022, Richardson joined theQueensland cricket team and left theSouth Australia cricket team.[1]
Richardson was born atEudunda inSouth Australia, but spent much of his childhood inDarwin in theNorthern Territory.[2] While in Darwin, Richardson played for Waratah and PINT Cricket Clubs, and represented theNorthern Territory at junior levels.[3] He moved back to South Australia to play forthe State cricket side, making hisTwenty20 debut in the2008–09 Big Bash[4] and hisList A debut in the2008–09 Ford Ranger Cup.[5]
In 2009, Richardson was named in Australia'sunder-19 squad for their tour of India ahead of the2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[6][7] While on tour in India, he managed a five-wicket haul in a youth test againstIndia.[8] After the tour, he went with the team to Kenya to play in the World Cup. He played three matches in the tournament and impressed with both bat and ball.[9] His first standout performance came againstIreland, when he scored 23 runs from 14 balls and took three wickets with the new ball to help Australia to a crushing 209-run victory.[10] He was brought into the team for the final of the World Cup againstPakistan, top-scoring with 44 runs to help Australia to their third Under-19 World Cup title.[11] During his youth career, Richardson played in two youth Test matches and ten youth One Day Internationals (ODI).[12]
Richardson was a crucial part of Such Australia's win in the2010–11 Big Bash,[13] taking three key wickets againstNew South Wales in the final of the tournament.[14] His form carried over into the other forms of the game in this season as well, with a man-of-the-match bowling performance againstQueensland in theRyobi Cup[15] being followed up with hisfirst-class debut for South Australia in the nextSheffield Shield game.[16] He was impressive on debut, taking a wicket in each of his first three overs of first-class cricket.[17] At the end of the season, he was upgraded from a rookie contract with South Australia to a full contract for the first time,[18] and when theBig Bash was replaced with theBig Bash League he stayed in Adelaide, playing for the newAdelaide Strikers.[13]
Richardson had a breakout season in 2012–13, particularly in theRyobi Cup where he took 21 wickets in just five matches with a very goodaverage of 13.8,[19] including a six-wicket haul against Queensland.[20] On the back of his strong performances for South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers, Richardson replaced the injuredMitchell Starc in the2nd One Day international against Sri Lanka on 13 January 2013,[21] making his international debut. In his firstOne Day International, he got a first ballduck lbw toLasith Malinga and the fine figures of 6 overs, 3 maidens and no wickets for 15 runs when he was removed by umpireMarais Erasmus for repeatedlyrunning on the pitch in his follow through.[19][22][23] He was forced to remodel his follow through during the rest of the season, but he continued to impress in domestic cricket with a five wicket haul againstVictoria and six wickets against New South Wales.[24][25]
Richardson made international headlines when he was bought byPune Warriors in the2013 IPL player's auction for $700,000, the third-highest price of any player that season despite the fact he had only played six first-class matches to that point.[19] He went on to play just three matches in the2013 season[23] and before thefollowing season was bought byRajasthan Royals, playing seven matches and taking 11 wickets. This ended up being his only season with the team as, though he was then retained by the Royals for the2015 season, he withdrew from the tournament for personal reasons.[26]
During 2014 Richardson played forAustralia A in a series of matches in Darwin. He had very good form, taking 13 wickets at an average of 11.30 and earning a return to Australia's ODI team for the2014 Zimbabwe Tri-Series.[27] He impressed Australian selectors enough to be included in both the ODI andT20I squad for Australia'smatches against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.[28] He made hisTwenty20 International debut for Australia againstPakistan in theUnited Arab Emirates in October 2014.[29] Despite his successes in 2014, Richardson was unable to secure his spot in the national side and wasn't included in the Australia A squad in 2015.[30]
Richardson made another comeback in the 2015–16 Australian summer when he was again very successful in one-day matches, being named South Australia's player of the tournament for theMatador Cup.[19] He made his way back into the national team in January 2016, joining the ODI squadagainst India.[30] His breakthrough performance came in this series, when in a match atManuka Oval, he took five wickets, causing the Indian batting order to collapse and taking Australia from a losing position to a dramatic win.[31] After this series, Richardson went with the Australian teamto New Zealand, but he was withdrawn from the series due to a back injury.[32] Later scans ruled him out of the rest of the season, meaning he missed the final four rounds of the2015–16 Sheffield Shield season.[33]
Richardson returned from his back injury to first-class cricket for Australia A in northern Queensland in the 2016 winter,[34] but injuries again affected him in the 2016–17 season.[13] A hamstring injury interrupted Richardson'sMatador Cup campaign[35] and another back injury caused him to miss most ofBBL|06.[13] Despite these injuries, he had the most consistentSheffield Shield season of his career, playing in eight matches for the Redbacks.[35]
Although Richardson started to find consistent form and recover from his injury problems, he was unable to gain a permanent place in Australia's national team as Australia already had four world-class fast bowlers inMitchell Starc,Josh Hazlewood,Pat Cummins andJames Pattinson. This limited Richardson's opportunities at the international level to occasions when one or more of the other fast bowlers was injured.[35] As a result, Richardson was again included in the Australia A squad in 2017 for the2017 South Africa A Team Tri-Series,[35] though Australia had to pull out of the series due to a pay dispute. Despite the cancellation of the series, Richardson was selected forAustralia's ODI and T20I series in India when Hazlewood, Cummins and Pattinson were all simultaneously injured.[36] In three ODIs in India, he took seven wickets.[37]
After spending the first six seasons of the Big Bash League with the Adelaide Strikers, being the club's all-time leading wicket-taker taking 42 wickets in 40 Twenty20 matches for the Strikers and South Australia combined, Richardson decided he wanted a fresh start and signed a new five-year contract with theMelbourne Renegades ahead ofBBL|07.[13][37][38]
In April 2018, Richardson was awarded a national contract byCricket Australia for the 2018–19 season.[39][40] In May 2019, he was added toAustralia's squad for the2019 Cricket World Cup, replacingJhye Richardson, who was ruled out of the tournament with a dislocated shoulder.[41]
In February 2020, Richardson was named in Australia's ODI squad for their seriesagainst New Zealand.[42] He missed the first match as he reported symptoms ofCOVID-19, though he tested negative and re-joined the squad.[43] In April 2020,Cricket Australia awarded Richardson with a central contract ahead of the 2020–21 season.[44][45] On 16 July 2020, Richardson was named in a 26-man preliminary squad of players to begin training ahead of a possibletour to England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[46][47] On 14 August 2020,Cricket Australia confirmed that the fixtures would be taking place, with Richardson included in the touring party.[48][49]
In August 2021, Richardson was named in Australia's squad for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[50]
Richardson currently plays Queensland Grade Cricket for the Gold Coast Mens 1st team, and Victorian Premier Cricket for the Geelong Cricket Club’s 1st XI[51]
Richardson is a right-armfast-medium bowler.[19][23] He is known for his fast pace and aggression and is skilled at bowling well-directedyorker.[19][23][37] Richardson's bowling action is reminiscent of former Australian Test bowlerPaul Reiffel.[19] In addition to being a good bowler, Richardson is a capable batsman and an athletic fielder. He has good hands, meaning he is able to take impressivecatches in the field, and he is also very fit. Richardson has done a two-kilometre time trial in 6:39, placing him among the fittest Australian cricketers.[34][37]
Richardson has had far more success in limited overs cricket, playing for Australia in bothOne Day Internationals andTwenty20 Internationals,[23] than in first-class cricket, as he is yet to play aTest match for Australia.[35] This has led to him being referred to as awhite ball specialist. Part of the reason for his success in shorter forms of the game is his ability to both open and close the bowling well.[37]
Richardson is avegan, not eating animal products.Cricket balls are made withleather, an animal product, and Richardson has said that he would prefer if they were not made with leather.[52]
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