Originally from Sydney, New South Wales, McLauchlan was a member of the Australia Under-19 cricket team that toured Pakistan in March 1997 and played in two Under-19 Tests and an Under-19 One Day International.
[1][2] He moved to Western Australia and was selected to play in the final two 2006–07 Pura Cup season, taking 4 wickets for 76 runs in his first-class cricket debut.
[4] He played a number of List A and Twenty20 games for Western Australia during the 2007/08 season, but was not offered a contract for 2008/09.
[5] Returning to Sydney, he continued to play cricket in the Sydney Cricket Association, but has (at the end of season 2014/15) been suspended a record ten times for a wide range of Code of Conduct Breaches mostly involving crude and/or offensive verbal attacks on opposing players and umpires.
Within only a few games of that season's start he was once again in hot water with match officials being cited for a range of abuse of umpire issues.