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Known simply as Harry by adoring fans throughout New Zealand, Harris has taken over the folk-hero status once enjoyed by Richard Hadlee. He bats left-handed, bowls slow-medium right-handed, fields brilliantly in the air and on the ground within the one-day circle, and likes to drive fast motors. He enjoys tinkering both with car engines and his cricketing methods. Once a briskish teenage medium-pace inswing bowler, Harris switched in his mid-twenties to slow leg-rollers which can be fiendishly hard to get away. As a batsman, he specialises in breakdown recovery, coming in at No. 7, never saying die, and opening the face to find the gaps on the offside. An essential part of the New Zealand one-day side, Harris is continually trying to re-establish himself as a Test player, and gritted it out at Auckland in 2001-02 after a surprise recall following a prolific domestic season with the bat. With his sunny nature and loose-limbed gait on the field, Harris looks a little like a lovable clown in one-day gear, and has had difficulty finding the same image, or success, in the more exacting five-day game. Don Cameron

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