An unusual and indeed natural position for former Clontarf bowler Matt Mangan is the latest photograph by Deryck Vincent to feature in our series.

One of the things I love most about sport and sports photography is the unnatural way the body can be shaped into a position.

A sports photograph provides a glimpse into the athletic capabilities of the body. Stopping the action at 1/2000th of a second shows can often lead to a beautiful, symmetrical pose or it can show something where one would question if the movement is at all possible.

Matt Mangan came to Clontarf in 2012. His best mate Mitch Watterson (both pictured below)was the pro and Matt decided to follow his mate from Australia and spent a summer in Dublin.

He was a bit of a character, great fun, a brilliant manner with the kids that he ended up coaching and popular all around the club.

He was a decent cricketer too and his leg spin earned him 12 senior wickets that year.

He had some injury problems which restricted his playing initially however. In an internal practice match, his first cricket of the season, in the first over, he tried to effect a run out and ended up in agony on the ground. No one quite knew what was going on.

It turned out that Matt had a knee problem and he had just disclocated his knee. Fortunately in Clontarf, we had one of the top orthopaedic surgeons in the country and Keith Synnott put him back on the field pretty quickly.

Later that year Matt was in the team that won the Leinster Senior Cup in YMCA against Pembroke.

My photo is of Matt bowling (below), when I saw it I had to look closely to work out just what was going on but I am pretty sure Matt would not be able to replicate that position without the help of his bowling action and even then.....