Phil Jaques

Phil Jaques is an Australian professional player who plays for the Australia national cricket team. He is a left handed opening batsman and a left arm medium pace bowler. He made his first class debut for the New South Wales cricketing club in 2001. After struggling to establish himself for New South Wales thereafter, Jaques transformed his career by signing for the English County Championship side Northamptonshire in 2003.

Jaques made his international debut for the Australian squad in the year 2005 in the test series against Bangladesh. He made his ODI debut in 2006 against South Africa. In this match he scored 94 runs and was 6 runs short of his first century. Due to this innings he broke the 23 year old record of Australia regarding the highest score on debut in a one day international. During the warm-up to the 2006 Ashes series in Australia he scored consecutive centuries in three days against England.

Jaques has played more first class games overseas than he has in Australia 62 overseas, mainly in England, 51 in Australia as of 25th November 2007. His batting average in the English County Championship is also quite a lot better than his average in the Pura Cup, 59.31 compared to 47.46 as of November 25th 2007.

Major achievements

Jacques is the first Australian cricketer to be born in Wollongong and able to score a Test match century.

He scored his first Test century in the third Test.

The number of first-class double hundreds scored by him is 8.

At the 2006 Allan Border medal ceremony he won the 2005-06 Australian Domestic Cricketer of the Year award.