Kane Richardson will be missing Australia's limited-overs tour of Pakistan following a hamstring injury. Richardson, the most experienced pace bowler of the already depleted side, suffered from the injury during Melbourne training and eventually was ruled out of the tour.
"Although the injury is considered minor it was decided the long trip to Pakistan along with four games in eight days and short turnarounds it was in Richardson's best interests to remain home," a Cricket Australia statement said.
Richardson's absence means the pace unit in the side will be led by Jason Behrendorff and Sean Abbott alongside Nathan Ellis as Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Pat Cummins have been rested for the white-ball matches of the tour. The team will now look up to allrounders like Mitchell Marsh, Cameron Green and Marcus Stoinis for contributions with the ball.
Richardson will be replaced by the left-armer Dwarshuis, who also plays for Sydney Sixers and has been part of the Indian Premier League. If he gets selected in the ODI side during the three-match series, it will come after just nine List-A matches for New South Wales.
Aaron Finch, the Australian captain, has faith in the squad, and he believes that the experience of playing T20 cricket will work for them. One thing that will help is the guys have played a lot of T20 cricket."
The Australia captain added, "They're quite inexperienced for Australia, but I think playing T20 cricket will help them in that regard. There's a lot of skill in the group and guys that have been around one-day cricket for a long time domestically as well."
Finch further commented, "Having a lot of a lot of faith in their own ability is really important. When you have got guys like Abbott, he's been around for a long time [and] Behrendorff. They've played a lot of state cricket, so I think it'll be fine."