Australian pacer, Kane Richardson has been ruled out of the limited-oversseries against Pakistan after suffering a hamstring injury. CricketAustralia has announced uncapped left-arm pacer, Ben Dwarshuis, as hisreplacement for the upcoming tour.
According to details, Richardson pulled his hamstring during a trainingsession in Melbourne ahead of the squad’s planned departure for Lahore inthe next few days. While the injury is not considered long-term, the teammanagement believes that it is in Richardson’s best interests to not traveland aggravate the injury further.
This puts a major dent in Australia’s pace bowling options as their threestar pacers, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood have alreadybeen rested for the three ODIs and one T20I.
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Australia’s pace attack will be led by Jason Behrendorff alongside SeanAbbott and Nathan Ellis while all-rounders, Mitchell Marsh, Cameron Green,and Marcus Stoinis will provide support to the frontline seamers.
