Mark Steketee joined Essex in March 2022 to play the first six games of the 2022 LV= Insurance County Championship campaign. The 28-year-old plays for Queensland, with performances earning him a call up to the Australia Test squad for the tour of Pakistan in early March 2022.

The Aussie was the leading wicket taker in the 2021/22 Sheffield Shield, taking 32 wickets in six matches at an impressive average of just 17.93, with best match figures are 10/92. After making his first-class debut in 2015, he’s taken 185 wickets at an average of 25.80, helping Queensland to two Sheffield Shield titles in 2018 and 2021.