Since 2016, he has played for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League, being brought into the squad for BBL|06 as an injury replacement, winning the tournament with the team in BBL|07.
[1] Though he came close to a Sheffield Shield debut, he did not get into the state team and instead played for Western Australia Under-23s in the Futures League.
[3] His standout performance came when he took the wickets of Moises Henriques and Sean Abbott in the New Year's Eve match to achieve bowling figures of 2/12 in a win.
O'Connor played his only match of BBL|07 in the final against the Hobart Hurricanes, while Khan was on international duty with Afghanistan.
Before returning to Perth at the end of the tournament he went to Brisbane to help the Papua New Guinea spinners in the team's training camp ahead of the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier.