Name:

Harris, Ryan James

Date of Birth:

11 Oct 1979

Gender:

Men

Place of Birth:

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Career:

ODI: 2009 - current
Test: 2010 - current

Teams:

QLD (Regional)
Australia (Country)

Comeback Harris cleans-up Pakistan: 3rd ODI (Adelaide)

Accurate and deadly start to career

Ryan James Harris (born 11 October 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast medium pace bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08. Harris was due to represent Sussex County Cricket Club in the 2008 English summer but the deal fell through when he moved to Queensland because it breached his Sussex contract. A week earlier he had played a first-class match for Sussex against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In June, 2009 he was signed by Surrey on a short-term contract. His nickname is Ryano and Bryan Harris.

Ryan Harris was a part of the Deccan Chargers squad that won the IPL in 2009 in South Africa. In late 2008, he was signed to an Indian Premier League contract with the Deccan Chargers, who are coached by his former Redbacks teammate Darren Lehmann. Having been selected for the Australian Twenty-20 team in early 2009, he was directly signed as an "uncapped" player by the Deccan Chargers, at the behest of Lehmann, without having to go through the standard IPL player auction process.

Harris made his international debut in a One Day International against South Africa in Hobart on 18 January 2009, during which he took the wicket of Neil McKenzie in a spell of 1/54. Nevertheless he was not selected for another ODI for over a year. on 26 January 2010, Harris was called up into the Australian squad for the 3rd ODI against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval as cover for Peter Siddle, who was ruled out due to a back injury. Although not required to bat, Harris opened the bowling with Doug Bollinger and took 5/43, including the wickets of Kamran Akmal and Shahid Afridi. He claimed man of the match honours and was picked for the 4th and 5th ODIs against Pakistan. In the next match in that series, Harris claimed 5/19, a second consecutive five wicket haul, behind only following Waqar Younis's three consecutive five-fors.

Harris was named the man of the series after securing another three wickets in the fifth and final match, taking his tally to 13 wickets in three matches, at an average of 8.15 and strike rate of 13.7.

In March 2010, Harris was called up to the Test squad for the first time, for the upcoming Test series in New Zealand. Harris made his test debut in the first game against NZ, with figures of 2/42 and 4/77.

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