Nathan McAndrew, the South Australian all-rounder, who won the Player-of-the-Match Award in the Final of the 2025/26 Sheffield Shield Final, has joined Glamorgan for a couple of Rothesay County Championship matches during 2026 as well as their contests in the Vitality T20 Blast – a competition in which Nathan returned five-wicket hauls for the Sussex Sharks against Glamorgan in 2025 at both Cardiff and Hove.
Glamorgan will be the third county who the 32 year-old has represented, having played initially for Warwickshire in 2022 before moving to Sussex the following season and enjoying three successful summers on the South coast.
Nathan had initially made his first-class debut in New Zealand, playing for Auckland in the Plunkett Shield in 2015/16 before later that season making his debut for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash. He subsequently made his first appearance for New South Wales in 2019/20 before switching allegiance to South Australia for 2021/22 and enjoying much success with bat and ball as South Australia have recorded back-to-back titles in the Sheffield Shield.
Like Michael Hogan, Nathan is something of a late developer having spent much of his twenties trying to break into the New South Wales team, before finding greater opportunities with South Australia and making his Sheffield Shield debut at the age of 28. Since then, no fast bowler in the Australian first-class competition has played more matches than Nathan’s tally of 42 and no bowler – either seam or spin – has bowled more overs or taken more wickets than Nathan’s haul of 181 at a very healthy average of 23.52. These bowling statistics also include 11 five-wicket hauls, plus one ten-wicket match return.
With various injuries and ailments within Australia’s international squad, as well as a gruelling schedule in 2026/27, their selectors have already chosen him in three games for Australia A, plus the Prime Minister’s XI game against the Pakistani’s at the Mauka Oval in Canberra in 2023/24.
McANDREW, Nathan John
Born 14 July 1993 Bankstown, New South Wales