"The art of leg-spin is not just bowling a leg-break; the art of leg-spin is to examine, deceive and outwit. That is the whole art. And within it is the magic," wrote Shane Warne in his autobiography, No Spin.

Some 15 years after Warne hung up his boots and retired from the game, UAE's wrist-spinner Karthik Meiyappan followed those golden words from his boyhood idol to examine, deceive and outwit his way to a World Cup hat-trick. As Warne intimated, it takes a particular type of personality to bowl wrist spin well - one that shares several characteristics with people who pursue Karthik's earlier love in life.

"During my childhood days, I was living in Tamil Nadu, in a place called Coimbatore, chess was something I was really interested in," Karthik told Cricbuzz. "Sport runs in the blood - in our family, tennis was something I was exposed to first up, then chess got my eye and that was something I really loved playing back when I was young. I played a couple of inter-state tournaments and I did pretty well over there."

Karthik's knack for outmanoeuvring an opponent was on display in the match