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His eyes twinkle and his hands move. Then, seamlessly, he switches to the process of limb lengthening."You get a lot people that have leg length discrepancies, they might be two inches short, so we have a limb lengthening nail precise, which goes in," he says, motioning with one leg as explains the process of winding up a riskier method "in the old days", in which an inserted nail could wind up and keep growing. Harris speaks of how in today's era there is a computer device controlled by magnets which, through a metal rod, can extend an individual's height by two of three inches, one millimetre a day, for about 30 days.It is a bit surreal to hear a cricketer you watched on TV so many times talk passionately and articulately about something so detached from the sport. I find myself gaping in amazement more than once. Dressed in jeans, a slim-fitting salmon pink t-shirt and tan fedora, Harris cuts a confident figure as he talks of his current profession - that of a medical representative for Australian company Orthotech, a distributor of orthopaedic devices, as the head for New Zealand's South Island.He is in the business of selling orthopaedic devices for hips and knees, spinal equipment, paedical screws and cages for spinal fusion to orthopaedic neurosurgeons.

When on the job, he scrubs up and goes into operation theatres "just to make sure if the surgeon needs help with the instrumentation and devices". It is a fascinating departure from so many other retired players' lives after cricket."Second Hand Furniture Sale In DubaiIt sounds very important, but in reality I do very little," says Harris with a smile. Comprar Camera Digital No Canada"I'm in scrubs, a very minor part of the team, and in all honesty when you have a surgeon that has been using your products, you're just there to remind then of certain techniques. Laptop Hard Drive Replacement FinderAll devices have their little idiosyncrasies, if you like, or slight differences, there are little lug nuts and things have to be tightened off.

You just remind surgeons - and they generally know - but it just makes it easier if they've got someone there who is effectively an expert on the instrumentation and devices."Occasionally, you might have to remind them to tighten it off. A surgeon might not be locking it in properly, and he will say, 'Chris, how do I lock off this? And I would say, for example, you will hear an audible click and that's when you know its locked'. In all honesty, the surgeon is the absolute expert and we're there on a very minor scale to help on occasions."So how exactly did Harris, who made his name as a canny exponent of wobbly bowling and as one of the sharpest fielders of his era, end up being a part of surgeries for other people? Orthotech happens to be owned by Sam Scott-Young, a former Wallabies rugby star from the mid-90s, but that isn't what got Harris the job. After quitting cricket, Harris got into the building industry, taking up a job 18 months ago with a company called Dunlop High Performance Building Products.

After about a year into the job, Harris was contacted by New Zealand Cricket after they heard he was in the job market. The board's head physio at the time was moving on and Harris was approached. He went into what he calls "pretty extensive training" and was then "put out in the field".By in the field, Harris means going into hospitals with other Orthotech representatives to watch surgeons at work. In medical scrubs, in operation theatres, watching patients being operated on. A stark departure from a career of delivering right-arm slow medium deliveries, athletic dives and catches and run-outs, drives and pulls and later coaching and commentating."It was very nerve wracking, the first time you go in on your own. Initially I went to about 20 surgeries with other reps, which is important when you are learning a trade," says Harris, who played 250 ODIs and 23 Tests and is New Zealand's third most successful bowler in ODIs with 240 wickets. "I was in surgery and they were running the case, effectively, from Orthotech's point of view.

I was just watching. You're dealing with peoples' lives and their quality of life. My first major spine surgery was nerve wracking. But touch wood, it went really well, no hiccups and ended up with a great result. The patient is doing well."Though he comes from a family of dentists - his grandfather, father, uncle and cousin are all in dental surgery - Harris had never envisioned getting into this line of work. But coming from a cricket background, where he saw so many New Zealand fast bowlers suffer from back and knee injuries, Harris developed a keen interest in how the human body functions. "Now I get to see it first hand, see the experts at work. Its brilliant," he says.His training, Harris says, is always ongoing. "New procedures, new techniques. Some of the devices are quite complicated."Post-retirement, unlike some of his peers, Harris did not have the luxury of retiring on his earnings as a professional cricketer. He did feature in the now defunct Indian Cricket League but did not get get a shot at the Indian Premier League - "that would be cool," he says - and the prospect of providing for a wife and three children meant he had to find employment outside of cricket.