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Richardson re-lives horror run-out miss

Redbacks bowler details teammates' merciless tenpin taunts after comedic run-out fail that left everyone laughing but the quick

He can sit back and chuckle at it now, but South Australia paceman Kane Richardson said his infamous missed run-out three seasons ago was no laughing matter at the time.

Richardson's unforgettable underarm miss from only a metre away spared the non-striker – Tasmania's Ben Laughlin – in a Ryobi One-Day Cup match in October 2013.

WATCH: Richardson misses the unmissable run-out

Despite smiling immediately after the wayward throw, Richardson said it took some time to see the funny side of the incredulous incident.

"It was a tough couple of weeks after … we lost the game because of that moment," Richardson told cricket.com.au in Bangalore, where he is playing with IPL franchise Royal Challengers.

"And at the stage South Australia was really struggling in that form (50-over) of the game.

"I took it pretty hard those first couple of weeks but now you can always sit back and laugh at it and have a joke, but it was a pretty bad moment when it happened."

Richardson's teammates didn't let the young fast bowler forget about it either.

"I remember that night, I was pretty down in the dumps, and we went to a pub and there was a tenpin bowling set-up," he said.

"I don't know why it was there – it was fate.

"Tim Ludeman put the pins out and grabbed the bowling ball and asked me to have a go."

It's a moment that gets recalled whenever a bowler in a similar situation fails to make contact with the woodwork, even though Richardson points out he did find the timber, if only just.

"If you watch the footage closely enough on that day I did actually hit the stumps," he said.

"I think Wardy (umpire John Ward) put a bit of superglue on the bails.

"Since then there's been a few others that have missed them and every time it gets brought back up.

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"I think Dwayne Bravo did at the (T20) Word Cup.

"I wasn't watching but I woke up to about 15 texts and 200 tweets."

Richardson said he "rectified" the issue when he was faced with another opportunity, this time for Australia, a year and one day after his mishap with the Redbacks.

"There was a tour of the UAE where we played Pakistan – you might have to pull the footage back up – I bowled a slower ball to big Mohammad Irfan and they took the single, Hadds threw it back to me and I pelted the stumps down underarm," he said.

"I felt like I buried my demons that day."

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