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Ryan Harris
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As a raw-boned fast bowler just out of his teens, Ryan Harris was plucked from suburban grade cricket in 2000 and contracted to play for South Australia's Redbacks. But by 2007, he was the last Redbacks player to be offered a contract. He realised that it was now or never if he wanted his cricket career to flourish.
A bumper summer, followed by a switch to Queensland saw him catapulted into the Australian ODI team in 2009 and then in 2010 he made his Test debut and received his prize baggy green cap. Along the way he won an IPL title with the Deccan Chargers.
With injury a constant if unwanted companion, it took almost four years for Ryan to make 16 Test appearances, although they netted him an impressive 71 test wickets at an average of just over 22. But then followed a remarkable 12 months where the Tin Man became the Iron Man. In all he played 12 out of 13 tests, a remarkable effort considering the curse of Injuries that had previously restricted him.
He was the man of the series despite England retaining the Ashes at home in Mid 2013, then a key member of the triumphant Australian team that reclaimed the venerable Urn at the end of that year in a crushing clean sweep.
Success followed him in South Africa too, and after bowling Australia to a crucial series win against the Proteas in 2014, he was hailed as a hero by cricket lovers worldwide.
His last Test heroics came at a price though, with the lionhearted Harris undergoing major knee surgery that once again put his career in jeopardy, as he gritted his teeth and began another long fight back.
Now if only his old enemy, his body, will let him continue winning.
