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Man built for big hit
ISLAMABAD. Feb 9 (AFP): Chris Cairns may know how to play a forward defensive shot — but. if he does, he hides it very well.
Defence, according to the New Zealand all-rounder's batting style, probably means trying to hit fours rather than sixes.
And he's not going to change. "If somebody told me
probably in his genes. His first cricketing memories are of his father Lance, who also distinguished himself at International level.
"As a young boy. I used to love watching the old man lifting the ball over the rope from all angles." he recalls.
The 25-year-old's career is beginning to regain direction after he failed to live up to the huge expectations heaped on him when he made his New Zealand debut fn the 1990-91 season.
Last year, appearing for English county Notting-
to slop going for sixes. 1 sim-
Cairns philosophy — especially if he can live up to it — should go down well at the World Cup.
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hamshire. he scored over 1:000 runs from the middle-order at an average Just under 40 and his right-arm fast-medium topped their bowling with 49 victims at 20.85.
His match figures of IS wickets for 83 against Sussex were unmatched by any bowler on the circuit.
"Sheep", as he is nicknamed by his teammates, looked set to take a break from the county next season but an extra 10.000-pound performance bonus on top of a 50,000 pound contract Ered too great a tempta-
The figures confirm that the Picton-born former Christchurch schoolboy, who also plays for Canterbury, is now in the big league.
His 6 fl 2 ins frame is beginning to impress on the international scene as well, just in time for the World Cup.
October saw him take four wickets in 18 balls against India. The following month there was a maiden one-day century off 87 balls and three wickets against the same opponents.
Then, in December, came four for 51 in the one-off Test against Pakistan.
Unfortunately, there were no real rave reviews, since New Zealand, stuck in a trough, contrived to keep on losing despite Cairns' contri-buttons.
His 120 off 96 balls against Zimbalnve in January — he reached three figures of 86 balls, the second fastest Test century ever scored by a New Zealander, and hit 94 in boundaries — deserved the headlines at last ... but clashed with Shane Warne's decision to take part in the World Cup.
Perhaps Cairns' overriding problem has been to maintain interest in a side that can boast few world-class competitors.
It seems that the confident Calms has managed that by keeping things simple — and hitting back as hard as he knows now.
After cracking a record 61 sixes for Notts last season he said: "Everybody can hit sixes. It's just a matter of backing
myself.
"If the ball is there to be hit. I just try to give it a whack."