Phil Jaques

Phil Jaques

Australia

Full name Philip Anthony Jaques
Born May 3, 1979, Wollongong, New South Wales
Current age 27 years 302 days
Major teams Australia, New South Wales, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire
Nickname Pro
Playing role Opening batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium
Height 1.83 m

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Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	2	3	0	96	66	32.00	154	62.33	0	1	11	1	1	0
ODIs	6	6	0	125	94	20.83	176	71.02	0	1	16	1	3	0
First-class	94	166	8	9057	244	57.32			26	44			79	0
List A	104	102	7	3959	158*	41.67	4357	90.86	9	23			28	0
Twenty20	26	26	1	788	92	31.52	584	134.93	0	5			4	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
ODIs	6	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
First-class	94	68	87	0	-	-	-	7.67	-	0	0	0
List A	104	18	19	0	-	-	-	6.33	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	26	6	15	0	-	-	-	15.00	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Australia v South Africa at Melbourne - Dec 26-30, 2005
Last Test	Bangladesh v Australia at Chittagong (CDS) - Apr 16-20, 2006
ODI debut	Australia v South Africa at Melbourne (Dock) - Jan 20, 2006
Last ODI	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 18, 2007
First-class span	2000/01 - 2006/07
List A span	2000/01 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2003 - 2006/07

Notes

State Player of the Year - 2006

Profile

Phil Jaques was holidaying on Queensland's Hamilton Island with his partner, the Australia football representative Danielle Small, when the Test call finally came to satisfy an early-career gamble. A British passport holder, Jaques was the victim of a country tug-o-war in 2003 after scoring 1409 County Championship runs with Northamptonshire, but he refused to commit to England because "my heart says Australia".

Jaques, the left-handed opener, maintained such a consistent standard with New South Wales [1191 runs in 2004-05] and Yorkshire [1359 in 2005 and 1118 in 2004] that when Justin Langer was ruled out of the Boxing Day Test against South Africa Trevor Hohns said simply: "Phil virtually demanded selection." His Test debut was a quiet one - he walked after squirting Shaun Pollock to short-leg for 2 and improved with 28 in the second innings - but at 26 he had been marked as a long-term national player. Another opportunity came in the second Test in Bangladesh and he produced a capable 66.

With an attacking mindset and home-made technique, he has shown the ability to score big runs on northern English greentops and hard-baked pitches in Australia and Pakistan, where he toured with Australia A in 2005. Injuries have provided him with openings throughout his career - he made his first-class debut with 40 at No. 10 as a late addition against Queensland in 2000-01 - and a Simon Katich groin problem was responsible for his one-day international call-up in the middle of the 2005-06 VB Series. He made a stunning impact with 94, the highest score by an Australian first-gamer, but was harshly dropped when Katich recovered.

Jaques had to introduce himself to Ricky Ponting before his Test debut, but his reputation had already excited the Australian captain, and Steve Waugh believes he has the potential to be the next Adam Gilchrist. "Australia is lucky to have a player like him coming through," Waugh said. "He is the prototype for young players."