The former Australian cricketer has been sentenced to a community corrections order after being found guilty of supplying cocaine that ultimately led to his kidnapping.

The former leg-break bowler was convicted in March for supplying a chargeable quantity of cocaine during a drug transaction. The court heard that the former cricketer facilitated a deal between his regular drug dealer and his brother-in-law which involved cocaine worth approximately A$330,000. The 54-year-old claimed that he was unaware that the one-kilogram brick of the drug had been exchanged.

The jurors acquitted him of participating in a large commercial drug supply but they found him guilty of the lesser offence of supplying a chargeable quantity of cocaine.

The Perth-born cricketer appeared at the Downing Centre District Court on Friday, and was sentenced to a community corrections order of one year and ten months. The former Australian captain Steve Waugh provided a character reference in favour of his former teammate.

"I believe that Stuart has the background of knowledge accumulated in his life and playing days to appreciate all the options for the future and the hard work and steps required in this process," Waugh wrote in a letter to the court.

He should complete 495 hours of community service work and undergo drug testing as part of the order. Judge Nicole Noman found the cricketer played a crucial role in setting up the cocaine deal.

"His role was essential to bring the parties together and for the transaction to occur," the Judge said.

The drug dealing made way for his kidnapping after the drug dealer stole two bricks of cocaine in a drug rip-off. The kidnapping brought many media into the case.

"The offender's colossal lapse of judgment has been causative of a very public fall from grace," she added.