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Phil Jaques: ‘I’m not by the textbook and I’m going to play that way’ © Getty Images

Steve Waugh says Phil Jaques, the debutant opener, is the prototype for future Australian batsmen. Waugh, who captained Jaques at New South Wales, has told his former team-mate to play the same way that has earned him comparisons with Adam Gilchrist.”He can take attacks apart,” Waugh said in . “He is so powerful he can go over the top or through the field. He gets on a roll and keeps going. He’s unorthodox. He can catch bowlers by surprise and I think people will be surprised how powerfully he hits the ball.”Jaques, who will replace the injured Justin Langer, met his captain Ricky Ponting and vice-captain Adam Gilchrist for the first time this week and the team is excited. “He’s got his game in order and everyone I’ve spoken to or heard from says he’s a very, very good player,” Ponting said in . “I’m told that he has a slightly different technique and hits the ball in different areas to what most blokes do and seems to be a fairly attacking, aggressive player. It will be good to see him bat.”During Waugh’s last year of first-class cricket he felt Jaques was batting like Gilchrist. “In the long term, Australia is lucky to have a player like him coming through,” Waugh said. “He has the ability to win a match. He wants to have a career out of cricket but he also wants to enjoy it. He is the prototype for young players who want to play for Australia.”After knocking back offers to qualify for England, Jaques has no intention of changing his approach for Monday’s second Test. “It’s got me to where I am,” he said in . “I’m going to be playing my game on Boxing Day and have plenty of fun with it. I’m not by the textbook and I’m going to play that way.”

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Clinton Perren made 103 but NSW continued to dominate© Getty Images

Clinton Perren played a lone hand for Queensland, scoring 103, but New South Wales were well on top at close of play on the third day at the Bankstown Oval. Perren’s century lifted Queensland to 259, but they were still 207 behind NSW, who chose not to enforce the follow-on. Batting again, they reached 2 for 47, stretching their lead to a comfortable 254.Perren was the only Queensland batsman to reach a half-century. The innings was also propped up by an unbeaten 40 from Andy Bichel.NSW suffered an early setback in their second innings when Phil Jaques, fresh from an unbeaten 240, was caught behind by Wade Seccombe off Joe Dawes for a duck. However, with a lead of 254, they were well-placed to add some quick runs on the fourth morning and then set the Bulls a stiff target in the last innings.

All Today’s Yesterdays – September 28 down the yearsSeptember 27 | September 291946
Birth of the regal Majid Khan, cousin of Imran, who was picked primarily as a bowler when he made his Test debut aged 18 but who was soon ensconced in the middle order by virtue of his scintillating strokeplay. He became the first Pakistani and the first person for 42 years to make a Test hundred before lunch against New Zealand at Karachi in 1976-77. But his most celebrated knocks came at a lower level: he led Punjab University to victory over Karachi with an unbeaten double-hundred after they had been 5 for 4, and he smashed 147 in 89 minutes for Pakistan against Glamorgan – who he later represented with distinction – in 1967, an innings that included 13 sixes, five in one over from the offspinner Roger Davis. A Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1970, Majid made almost 4000 runs in 63 Tests before becoming an ICC match referee and later Chief Executive of the PCB.1960
Birth of the little West Indian wizard Gus Logie. A brilliant short leg and a dangerous counter-attacker at No. 5 or 6, Logie specialised in the punchy, initiative-seizing cameo. In tandem with Jeff Dujon he was a regular pain in the neck for England, most notably at Lord’s in 1988 (when West Indies were 54 for 5) and at Trinidad in 1989-90 (when they were 29 for 5). A glorious, impish batsman of just 5 ft 4 ins, Logie played his last Test at Edgbaston in 1991 and finished with 2470 runs at 35.79.1971
Whatever happened to Matthew Elliott, who was born today? The top scorer on either side in the 1997 Ashes series with 556 runs, the tall, long-nosed Elliott looked a class act who was here to stay. But within a year of becoming a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1998, Elliott had played what may well be his last Test. Poor form certainly contributed to his demise – he made three ducks in six innings in the West Indies in 1998-99 – but he did himself few favours by getting on the wrong side of Steve Waugh during that tour. A gifted left-handed opener or No. 3 with all the shots in his locker, Elliott made three hundreds in his 20 Tests, including 199 at Headingley in 1997, when he was infamously dropped by Graham Thorpe off Mike Smith. He also played for Glamorgan in 2000, and, with great success, for Yorkshire in 2002.1996
In Nairobi, Muttiah Muralitharan and Romesh Kaluwitharana rained on Kenya’s parade. In the first official one-day international there, Murali took 4 for 18 and Kalu thrashed an 89-ball ton as Sri Lanka eased home by seven wickets, with almost 20 overs to spare, in the first match of the Kenya Centenary Cup.1973
England’s leading female legspinner was born. At the age of six Kathryn Leng, who was born today, informed her primary-school teacher that she would play cricket for England, and she was true to her word. Also a fine middle-order bat, Leng made history in 1999 when she became the first woman to play in the men’s Bradford League. She also became the first woman to play in a university match, for Leeds/Bradford UCCE, before earning a recall to the England women’s winter training squad ahead of their tour to India in January.1984
The first floodlit one-day international outside Australia took place at New Delhi, and Kepler Wessels broke the habit of a lifetime by playing some shots. His 107 – the only ODI hundred of his career – led Australia to a comfortable 48-run victory over India in the first of a five-match series.1999
Opening the innings, Lance Klusener smashed an unbeaten 101 as South Africa romped to a nine-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in their LG Cup match at Nairobi with 15 overs to spare. Apparently the ultimate pinch-hitter, Klusener has opened only nine times in ODIs. The reasons? As an opener, his 101 was preceded by a third-ball duck and followed by two first-ballers, a fearful waste of South Africa’s most lethal weapon. Unsurprisingly, he hasn’t opened since.1988
In the second Test in Faisalabad Javed Miandad was given out lbw for only the fourth time in 63 Test innings on home soil. But by then he had made 107, his 19th Test hundred, and denied Australia’s attempts to square the series. In all Miandad was given out leg-before only eight times in Tests in Pakistan and 25 times overseas.Other birthdays
1964 Irfan Bhatti (Pakistan)
1973 Colin Stuart (West Indies)

Pakistan have paved the way for a clean sweep over Bangladesh as they beat the hosts by the conclusive margin of 72 runs in the second one-day international of the Coca-Cola series held in BNS ground in Dhaka to take a 2-0 lead.Assisted by a swashbuckling knock from stalwart Yousuf Youhana, Pakistan piled up 281 for 5 after a disastrous start. At one stage the tourists were 48 for 4. But then Younis Khan and Yousuf Youhana compiled a 135-run stand to take the side out of danger. Younis made 73 before Enamul Haque removed him.Youhana and Razzak remained inseparable till the end, when Youhana had reached 112 and Razzak 48. Mohammed Sharif was the most successful among the local boys claiming 2 wickets for 59.Chasing a target of 282, the hosts made a flying start despite loosing Javed Belim early. Mehrab Hossain and Al-Sahariar were going well and put on a 59-run stand for the second wicket. Razzak finally broke the partnership by claiming the wicket of Mehrab.The game was halted when crowd troubled erupted in one of the stands. Shoaib Akhtar, who was fielding near deep fine leg, got hurt when one of the spectators hurled something at his head. He had to go to hospital to receive treatment as play was held up for some three-quarters of an hour.On the resumption, Bangladesh lost two wickets in quick succession, includingAl-Sahariar for 41.Among the batsmen, Tushar Imran, gave the spectators something to cheer as he struck six boundaries in his 65, despite the match turning out to be a one-sided affair.The lower order batsmen managed to remain to take the total to 209 after 50 overs. Both Shahid Afridi and Saqlain Mushtaq captured three wickets.Yousuf Youhana was adjudged the man-of-the-match for his brilliant innings of 112 from 108 balls with 12 fours and two sixes.

Nasser Hussain still finds run eluding him but he shared the joy of his Essex team as they thrashed Gloucestershire by 109 runs at Bristol.On a wicket where the bounce became more variable as the third day wore on they shot the home side out for 85 in two and a quarter hours.If it shook Gloucestershire almost on the eve of their Benson & Hedges Cup final with Glamorgan at Lord’s the win, the second in succession, was no surprise to Essex’s Ronnie Irani.”With the new ball we could end it in the evening session and when the early wickets fell we knew we would even without claiming the extra half hour” he said.For Gloucestershire’s part having bowled Essex out the second time for 1999 with Jon Lewis returning six for 47 they believed the victory could be theirs.But by the end of the 18th over they had crashed to 39 for five with the seam attack of Mark Ilott, Irani and Ashley Cowan finding some balls bouncing on the tinder dry surface and others shooting through low.All this was largely academic for Hussain who had elected to play in this second division match in a bid to find batting form after his failures against Zimbabwe in the previous test.Out for three in the first innings he fared even worse in the second falling to his fifth ball for a duck. After varying all the balls he received Lewis dug in a faster one quite short. The England captain swayed away but the ball shot off the top of the bat to wicket keeper Reggie Williams for the most important of the five catches he held in the match.The wicket was already showing signs of uneven bounce and only Paul Grayson of the top Essex order played it with any real confidence, defending and waiting for the one to hit.It explained the nine fours in his 52 before he was undone just before lunch by Mark Hardinges, a 22-year-old seamer from Bath University, bowled by one that kept low.In the first over after the break Hardinges followed this by having Irani caught in the slips for 42 with the score still on 127.With six wickets down Essex now relied on the commonsense of Darren Robinson who faced 124 balls for an unbeaten 32 and then a late heave from Cowan – a six and three fours in a quick 21 – to give them the right platform.The home side shed wickets rapidly with only three of them, headed by Tim Hancock, getting into double figures. Opener Hancock top scored with 26 and was left shaking his head in disbelief when a leg before shout went against him.Gloucestershire’s New Zealand coach John Bracewell claimed: “We lost this one in the first innings when we failed to take a lead of 100 runs but I pledge this result, bad as it was, will have no bearing on the cup final. The lads have always showed they can raise their game in the one dayers.”While Irani finished with 3-30 off 11 overs the celebrations were all for Danny Law. He came on late in the second innings with his seamers and wrapped up the win in 4.4 overs with four wickets at a cost of just 15 runs.

Rangers will be looking to return to winning ways tonight as Gio van Bronckhorst’s Gers side aim to avoid drawing for the third successive Premiership match.

The Ibrox giants have been unable to pick up all three points in both of their last two outings in the league and now have the opportunity to put things right as they return to action this evening.

Van Bronckhorst’s men are three points off the top of the table and are in desperate need of positive results to take them above their arch-rivals.

One change that the Dutchman must make for their clash with St Johnstone is bringing in Leon Balogun to play at the heart of the backline.

The £14k-per-week Nigerian must replace John Lundstram at the heart of the defence after the experiment of playing the latter in a back four against Motherwell backfired badly. The Englishman was caught out positionally and then burned for pace for the first goal for the away side in the 2-2 draw, with his lack of experience in the position being exposed on the day.

Former Ibrox boss Steven Gerrard claimed that Balogun plays with a “smile on his face” for the Gers and that shines through in his performances. Former Light Blues full-back Alan Hutton once dubbed him  “outstanding”, and his statistics this season back up that praise.

In the Rangers squad, the Nigeria international ranks ninth in the Premiership and second in the Europa League for average SofaScore ratings. This suggests that he has been one of the club’s top performers in 2021/22, which is why he must be brought back into the starting XI for tonight to replace Lundstram, whose error at the weekend proved that he is not a viable option at centre-back.

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In the Premiership, Balogun has averaged a SofaScore rating of 7.06. He has made 3.3 tackles and interceptions per game whilst winning 64% of his duels overall, as he has shown that he the ability to be a standout performer at this level.

The strong 33-year-old tank must now be unleashed on St Johnstone to give Rangers a better chance of keeping a clean sheet, in comparison to keeping Lundstram out of position. Van Bronckhorst must start the veteran alongside Goldson, with the pair providing a solid defensive base for the forward players to go and work their magic in the final third to secure the three points.

AND in other news, Forget Roofe: Van Bronckhorst can save Rangers millions in “big talent” who scores every 41 minutes…

Efforts to resuscitate Bob Woolmer, after he was found unconscious in his hotel room, were hindered by the position of his body, said the first doctor to attend to him, at a coroner’s inquest heard on Friday.Woolmer, the former Pakistan coach, was found unconscious in his room at the Pegasus Hotel a day after Pakistan’s shock defeat to Ireland in the World Cup. Dr Asher Cooper arrived a few minutes after Novelette Robinson, the team’s registered nurse, but could carry out resuscitation measures only after Woolmer was moved out of the bathroom.”When I went to the room, Woolmer’s head was under the toilet bowl and I could not do resuscitating exercises,” Cooper told Patrick Murphy, the inquest’s coroner and an 11-member jury. “I was only able to take pictures with my cellular phone camera, which I gave to the police.” Woolmer was moved to the hall with the help of the police after which he was administered CPR and chest compression.The measures were continued until the arrival of the ambulance, even though Woolmer was without a pulse and had stopped breathing. Cooper said there were no signs of life before Woolmer was taken to the University of West Indies hospital, where he was declared dead.Dr Simone French, who attended to Woolmer on his arrival at the hospital, said that further efforts were made to revive him before he was declared dead. “After the body was taken to the hospital we put him on the cardio machine and there was no response.”Dennis Forbes, a detective constable, also testified by displaying pictures he had taken, which showed Woolmer lying on a stretcher at the hospital. Woolmer’s face was blood-stained, with a purplish discolouration to his left side. The pictures also showed a red mark on his left hip.The inquest, which started on Tuesday, is being held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.

Bangladesh 186 for 1 (Nafees 105*, Aftab 60*) beat Zimbabwe 184 for 9 (Taylor 38, Razzak 4-33) by 9 wickets
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Shahriaf Nafees’s third consecutive hundred against Zimbabwe was a winning effort © AFP

Shahriar Nafees scored an unbeaten 105 as Bangladesh recorded an easy nine-wicketwin over Zimbabwe in the first ODI at Khulna on Thursday. Nafees’s century, histhird consecutive ton against Zimbabwe, was part of a sound all-round performance byBangladesh; earlier, their left-arm spin trio of Abdur Razzak, Mohammad Rafique and Saqibul Hasan restricted Zimbabwe to 184 for 9.Though Zimbabwe had enough spinners in their ranks to put pressure on theopposition on a slow surface, they paid the price for an overly defensiveapproach, often allowing the batsmen to pick the gaps during the middleovers. Nafees and Aftab Ahmed, both flamboyant players, were allowed toplay their natural game, leading to the familiar story of Nafees – who came intothis match with a Bradmanesque-average of 92.75 in six matches – tormenting theZimbabweans.After a quiet start, Nafees cut loose in theeighth over, fetching three fours off Anthony Ireland. The first, a widedelivery, was smashed past point, followed by a delicate flickdown fine leg. The third was by far the best of the match, effortlesslydriven past mid-on and accompanied by a perfect follow-through that highlightedNafees’s form. His opening partner, Mehrab Hossain, complemented him with a sedate13 in a stand of 72 before handing a low catch to SeanWilliams. Nafees did the bulk of the scoring, rocking back and slapping the spinnerspast the infield, and even scooping seamer Elton Chigumbura over midwicket for asix.Aftab, who came in next, was at his aggressive best, though his start wasn’tas convincing; he played a few streaky strokes, at one stage nearly spooning acatch to the close-in fielders. But he soon came into his own, chargingRyan Higgins for a six over long on and launching Chigumbura over deep cover, stepping down the track against a deliveryjust short of a good length. Nafees ensured that he stayed at the wicket,pulling the odd loose ball from the spinners and picking up the singles.He reached his ton with a single to deep point while his side was on the brink ofvictory.The win was fashioned by Bangladesh’s three-pronged left-arm spin attack,who shared eight wickets. The attack may have lacked variety,but their relentless stump-to-stump line restricted Zimbabwe to a modest184, undoing a breezy opening stand of 52 between Brendan Taylor andStuart Matsikenyeri, who looked at ease against the seamers.The introduction of the spinners pegged Zimbabwe back almost immediately,as Razzak struck in his first over. Matsikenyeri was bowled trying to cutand Williams fell soon after to Rafique, bowled trying to drive onthe off side. At that stage, Zimbabwe were still in a fairly decentposition, scoring at a rate of over four an over. But with spinnersoperating from both ends on a sluggish surface, the rate started to dip.Taylor and Hamilton Masakadza perished trying to push the scoring, bothhitting straight down the throat of long off. Rafique, who accounted for Taylor, picked up his 100th wicket in one-dayers. The middle order caved in asthe batsmen struggled to find the gaps against the left-armers who peggedaway on a restrictive line. With half their side gone with only 100 onboard, Chigumbura and Mluleki Nkala consolidated by adding 43. Fast bowlerShahadat Hossain, brought back in the slog overs, broke through asChigumbura missed a wild swing on the on side.Razzak was by far the most effective among the bowlers, cleverly teasingthe batsmen with his flight – which he used very effectively to claim thelast three wickets. Nkala stepped down the track but failed to get to thepitch of the ball, miscuing it to Mashrafe Mortaza, who held on to adifficult running catch at cover while Gary Brent was cleaned up for aquick 20, trying to hit across the line. Prosper Utseya wasted no time indispatching Razzak over the ropes in the penultimate ball of the inningsbut Razzak came back to claim his wicket off the last, pitching it shortof a length, beating Utseya who was neatly stumped by Mashud. Razzakfinished with figures of 4 for 33, tormenting Zimbabwe for the second time, following his parsimonious spell of 3 for 17 in four overs in the Twenty20 international at the same venue on Tuesday.

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Rahul Dravid handled the bowlers cautiously and remained unbeaten at the end of the day © Getty Images

Sri Lanka’s first Test match in India in eight years finally got underway, after three-and-a-half damp, funereal days, but it was a largely pointless exercise with absolutely no chance of a result. Barring Virender Sehwag, who triggered a fiery start, India’s batsmen spent most of their time negotiating the lack of bounce on the sluggish surface and ground their way to 90 for 2 at the end of the 32.3 overs that were possible today.A familiar sight during the first three-and-a-half days were of groundstaff using a press-iron to remove the moisture on the pitch, but they probably ended up removing whatever bounce there was as well. Chaminda Vaas’s very first ball hardly rose above knee height – it didn’t take too long for Kumar Sangakkara to stand upto the stumps – and a number of deliveries brushed the toe of the bat, or squirted below the blade completely. Gautam Gambhir, who hadn’t yet got off the mark, played the wrong line against a canny incutter from Vaas but he had no chance when the ball hardly rose above pad height and crashed into leg stump. Thankfully for the batsmen, not all the shooters were well directed and India lost just two wickets when bad light stopped play 5.3 overs before the scheduled close.No pitch in the world, though, is likely to fluster Sehwag, and he began as if India were chasing 300 in a one-dayer. The first ball he faced – short and wide from Dilhara Fernando – was flayed to the square fence and the bowlers were made to pay for any errors in length. Sehwag carted Fernando’s third over for 16, as two savage cuts were interspersed with a mighty pull, and suddenly the MA Chidambaram Stadium, draped in dampness for most of the last week, was the place to be. The celebrations, though, came to an abrupt end as Marvan Atapattu, at short cover, timed his jump and pulled off a fine reflex catch.In Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, though, India had two of the best to handle the low bounce and they averted any further damage. Muttiah Muralitharan, coming on as early as the eighth over, posed some searching questions – turning it both ways and varying his flight beautifully – but both batsmen were content to bide their time and wait for the loose ones. Tendulkar will resume tomorrow with a record to target, Sourav Ganguly, picked ahead of Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif, will have a few points to prove, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni might get a chance to blaze away on his Test debut. For the rest, though, it will be a good day’s practice as they loosen their limbs and dust off the inertia. Some quick squatting skills, though, may be vital.

Gautam Gambhir b Vaas 0 (13 for 1)
Virender Sehwag c Atapattu b Vaas 36 (45 for 2)