Kane Richardson ruled out of white-ball leg of Pakistan tour

Australian pacer Kane Richardson has been ruled out of the limited-overs tour of Pakistan due to a hamstring injury. 

The 31-year-old has been replaced by uncapped New South Wales left-armer Ben Dwarshuis.

Richarson suffered from an injury during training in Melbourne ahead of the team's departure to Lahore.

"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.

Dwarshuis has been previously part of Australia's T20 squad during a tri-series in 2017-18 and 

Australia will be already without their frontline pace battery of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc in the white-ball series as they are rested for the four matches in eight days.

The pace attack will be led by Jason Behrendorff and Sean Abbott alongside Nathan Ellis while allrounders Mitchell Marsh, Cameron Green and Marcus Stoinis are the other medium-pace bowling options.

Meanwhile, Australia's limited-overs captain is was confident the squad still had the depth to compete.

"One thing that will help is the guys have played a lot of T20 cricket," he said. "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.

"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."

The white-ball series starts on March 29 with an ODI at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.