Nathan Reardon

Who is Nathan Reardon?

Nathan Jon Reardon is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays for Queensland.

After a handful of seasons as a bits-and-pieces one-day player, Nathan Reardon won his first-class debut at the end of 2007-08, scoring 18 and 1, and delivering an over. More opportunities for Reardon, a stylish left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pacer, came in the FR Cup campaign, where he played in seven matches at the top and middle of the order, with a high of 36 off 39 balls against Victoria. At the end of the summer he was given the team's fielding award and the prize for the Second XI's Player of the Year.

In 2008-09 he showed his power in the Twenty20s, blasting 144 runs at a strike-rate of 158 and finishing with a competition-high 12 sixes. He was also a fixture in the victorious one-day side, registering two fifties and impressing with his stroke-play. A breakthrough day came when he blasted seven sixes in his 147 against West Indies at Allan Border Field, but he added only four Shield games to his tally for one half-century. The one-day arena was much more fun and his return of 393 runs, with four fifties, was the second best in the side, although he wasn't able to replicate the form in Twenty20s.