NathanMcAndrew

A late bloomer at Sheffield Shield level, Nathan McAndrew made his debut for South Australia in 2021 aged 28, more than five years after his Australian domestic T20 debut. Regardless, he has quickly risen into national calculations with 103 wickets in 25 matches across his first three seasons.

Hailing from southern NSW, McAndrew switched his allegiance from blue to red ahead of the 2021-22 season where he has since formed an important cog in an emerging Redbacks pace attack featuring fellow imports Brendan Doggett, Wes Agar and Jordan Buckingham.

McAndrew earned Australia A honours in 2022, while he also represented a strong Prime Minister's XI side against Pakistan in 2023.

A product of Oak Flat Cricket Club near Wollongong on the NSW south-central coast, McAndrew's journey to first-class cricket took him across the Tasman to play with Auckland in New Zealand's domestic competition.

While playing for Bankstown in Sydney Premier Cricket, NSW's bowling coach and former Black Caps allrounder Andre Adams put him in touch with former NZ teammates across the ditch where McAndrew played three first-class games in the summer of 2015-16.

Despite a growing reputation as a T20 asset with Sydney Thunder in the KFC BBL, he could not crack the Blues starting XI and only earned his maiden full-time NSW contract in June 2020 before being delisted 12 months later.