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ISTANBUL, April 2 (Reuters) – Turkey’s central bank injected one billion lira ($660 million) in a one-week repo auction on Friday at an average simple rate of 6.82 percent.
Total bids amounted to 3.11 billion lira. The bank also injected two billion lira in a three-month auction at an average simple rate of 7.40 percent, attracting total bids of 8.48 billion lira.
($1=1.5160 lira)
London, September 20 (ANI): Spreading altruism through social networks can make people across the world kind to one another, says an expert.
Nicholas Christakis, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, has observed in a study that one’s kindness can turn a friend kind to someone else he/she knows.
To demonstrate this, Christakis designed a cooperation game in which 120 students were organised into groups of four, and asked to give money to their group.
The game lasted five rounds, and after each round the students were reorganised so that no two appeared in the same group twice.
At the end of each found, the participants were told how much the others in their group had given.
Christakis observed that if someone gave a dollar more than the predicted group average, the others in that group gave approximately 20 cents more than expected in the next round.
The altruism persisted into the third round, said the researcher.
A separate study conducted by Christakis’s team showed that cooperative behaviour spreads to three degrees of separation, from friend to friend to friend, reports New Scientist.
Based on their observations, Christakis and colleagues came to the conclusion that a person who is popular and well connected could have a special role to play, as his/her compassionate acts could resonate further through the network, and he/she was also more likely to benefit from other people’s kindness. (ANI)
London, Sept 18 (ANI): Britons waste one month of their lives searching for the television remote control, a new study has found.
After studying 4,000 individuals, the researchers found that the average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends more than four minutes looking for it each time, reports The Scotsman.
That means each week Brits spend 15 minutes hunting for the device.
Kathryn Drought, of Sky, who led the study to launch the broadcaster’s Free Weekend Pass, said: “The remote control is such a well-used item in the nation’s homes.
“It’s one of those things we’re forever trying to find – normally down the back of the sofa.
“TV plays such a big part in our lives. It’s not surprising who is in control of the remote is such a hot household topic.”
Three in ten volunteers admitted hiding the remote from a partner or housemate, and 17 per cent have thrown it at someone in a fit of “remote rage”, the study found. (ANI)
Washington, Sep 16 (ANI): Ever wondered how some people successfully maintain a significant weight loss, while others tend to regain the weight? Well, researchers at The Miriam Hospital attribute such tendencies to a difference in brain activity patterns.
The researchers showed that when individuals who had kept the weight off for several years were shown pictures of food, they were more likely to engage the areas of the brain associated with behavioural control and visual attention, as compared to obese and normal weight participants.
The findings of the study suggest that successful weight loss maintainers may learn to respond differently to food cues.
“Our findings shed some light on the biological factors that may contribute to weight loss maintenance. They also provide an intriguing complement to previous behavioral studies that suggest people who have maintained a long-term weight loss monitor their food intake closely and exhibit restraint in their food choices,” said lead author Dr. Jeanne McCaffery.
Long-term weight loss maintenance continues to be a major problem in obesity treatment.
Participants in behavioural weight loss programs lose an average of 8 to 10 percent of their weight during the first six months of treatment, and will maintain approximately two-thirds of their weight loss after one year.
However, despite intensive efforts, weight regain appears to continue for the next several years, with most patients returning to their baseline weight after five years.
The researchers used functional magnetic resource imaging (fMRI) to study the brain activity of three groups- 18 individuals of normal weight, 16 obese individuals (defined as a body mass index of at least 30), and 17 participants who have lost at least 30 lbs and have successfully maintained that weight loss for a minimum of three years.
When the participants were shown pictures of food items after a four-hour fast, it was found that those in the successful weight loss maintenance group responded differently to these pictures compared to the other groups.
Specifically, researchers observed strong signals in the left superior frontal region and right middle temporal region of the brain – a pattern consistent with greater inhibitory control in response to food images and greater visual attention to food cues.
“It is possible that these brain responses may lead to preventive or corrective behaviors – particularly greater regulation of eating – that promote long-term weight control. However, future research is needed to determine whether these responses are inherent within an individual or if they can be changed,” said McCaffery.
The study has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. (ANI)
Washington, September 15 (ANI): Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have found that a popular stomach-acid reducer, which is used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients who need breathing machine support, triples the likelihood of contracting pneumonia among such patients.
Hospital-acquired pneumonia-the leading cause of infection-related deaths in critically ill patients-increases hospital stays by an average of seven to nine days, cost of care, and the risk of other complications.
“As best we can tell, patients who develop hospital-acquired pneumonia or ventilator-acquired pneumonia have about a 20 to 30 percent chance of dying from that pneumonia. It’s a significant event,” said senior study author Dr. David L. Bowton, professor and head of the Section on Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology.
During the study, the researchers compared treatment with two drugs that decrease stomach acid: ranitidine, marketed under the name ZantacTM, and pantoprazole, marketed under the name ProtonixTM or PrilosecTM.
Both drugs decrease stomach acid, but the newer pantoprazole is considered more powerful, and has become the drug of choice in many hospitals.
However, upon the analysis of 834 patient charts, the researchers came to the conclusion that the risk of developing pneumonia was thee times more in the hospitalised cardiothoracic surgery patients who had been treated with pantoprazole.
“We conducted this study, in part, because we thought we were seeing more pneumonias than we were used to having,” said study co-author Marc G. Reichert, pharmacy coordinator for surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The researchers say that their study suggests some other steps to keep critically ill patients from developing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Bowton suggests that doctors consider whether an acid reducer is needed at all, and, in cases where it is needed, ranitidine is recommended because of the apparent decreased risk in developing pneumonia.
Doctors should stop using the drug as soon as the risk of bleeding passes – once the patient is off the breathing machine and eating, either on his/her own or through a feeding tube.
“Stopping the drugs earlier appears to be the best thing for patients,” Reichert said.
The study has been published in a recent issue of CHEST. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Heavy rains lashed New Delhi on Thursday leading to traffic snarls and water logging in many areas.
The city received 93.2 mm of rains since last night.
However, the heavy rains also brought down the temperature in the capital with the minimum being recorded at 23.3 degree Celsius
The Delhi government has issued an advisory, asking people to avoid Dhaula Kuan and the roads leading to it.
The areas witnessing huge traffic jams are Mayur Vihar, Vasant Vihar, Munirka, Dhaula Kuan, Pragati Maidan, Moolchand, Lajat Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Bhajanpura and Nizamuudin.
Traffic lights were also not working in many areas.
Office goers had a harrowing time as traffic moved at a snail’s pace. Roads were chocked, many cars broke down creating further chaos and most streets were water logged.
Met officials have said that there are no indications of the monsoon withdrawing from the country at present.
Delhi has received a total of 538.6 mm of rain this monsoon against an average of 573 mm.(ANI)
London, Sep 8 (ANI): England’s Ashes hero Stuart Broad doesn’t want to replicate all rounder Andrew Flintoff in his life and is not even that keen on taking Flintoff’s place at No.7 in the Test team.
“No one can replace Fred. It is important that I focus on my qualities and don’t try to be someone I’m not,” Broad said.
Despite scoring five fifties in his 22-Test career, two of them in the Ashes, and having a respectable batting average of 31, Broad plays down that side of his game.
“My aim is to become a good No 8. If the top six build a platform that allows me and Graeme Swann to come and play with freedom as we did at the Oval. I just want to be awkward to bowl at,” The Times quoted Broad, as saying.
Flintoff has said that Broad’s batting is good enough to play as a specialist batsman and Geoff Boycott, praising the straight play of Broad, compared him to a young Garry Sobers, saying that Broad could make the same journey as Sobers from tailender.
“I don’t think I can average 40 in Test cricket. That’s a huge ask, even for recognised batsmen,” Broad said.
The modest Nottinghamshire all-rounder really wants is to spend a night in his own bed and maybe hang a shelf or two.
“I bought a house six months ago and I’ve only spent about 20 nights there. When we have finished with these one-day games and the Champions Trophy, all I’m looking forward to is 2-3 weeks at home and a bit of decorating before we go to South Africa.”
Andrew Flintoff is reportedly having six feet mosaics of the Ashes urn installed in the swimming pools, but Broad’s ambition extends no farther than getting house painted.
Nor does he plan to decorate his body, Flintoff-style. “My mum would never let me in the house again if I had a tattoo,” he said. (ANI)
Colombo, Sep.8 (ANI): New Zealand cricketers have expressed relief that swashbuckling Indian opening bat Virender Sehwag will not feature in the tri-series in Sri Lanka and in the upcoming Champions Trophy in South Africa because of a shoulder injury.
A shoulder injury means New Zealand avoid one of the most devastating strikers of a cricket ball.
It maybe recalled that during the recent one-day series in New Zealand, Sehwag had tonked 299 runs at an average of 74.25 to help India win by a margin of three games to one.
“It is a relief,” said vice-captain Brendon McCullum when asked about the significance of Sehwag not leading off the Indian order in against New Zealand on Friday.
“The way he played against us in the home summer, he was pretty terrifying at the top of the order,” stuff.co.nz quoted McCullum, as saying.
“He really tore us apart so to not have him in their team is a bit of a blow for them,” he added. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep.7 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed concern over low conviction rate of persons involved in carrying out atrocities against schedule castes and schedule tribes.
Speaking during inauguration of a conference of state ministers of welfare and social justice at New Delhi on Monday, Prime Minister Dr. Singh said: “Reports of atrocities against SCs, STs and senior citizens continue to appear with disturbing regularity. I have in fact written to the Chief Ministers of all states recently to enforce the provisions of the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is shocking that conviction rate for cases of atrocities against SCs and STs is less than 30 percent against the average of 42 per cent for all cognisable offences under IPC.”
“The state governments need to give more attention to this issue,” the PM said.
Singh told them to conduct meetings of state and district level vigilance committees on a regular basis and said that court cases should be pursued on priority.
Focussing on the need to change the general mindset towards disadvantaged groups, the Prime Minister said such people should be made equal partners in the developmental processes.
“We propose to amend the Persons with Disabilities Act in consultation with states so as to bring it in line with the UN Convention (on Rights of Persons with Disabilities),” Dr. Singh said.
Referring to the drought like situation prevailing in many parts of the country, Singh said, “the experience has been that weaker sections tend to be the worst affected by such natural calamities.
“We, therefore, need to step up monitoring and implementation of welfare schemes like NREGA, Annapurna and Old Age Pension Scheme, which target the weaker sections.” (ANI)
Kupwara (J-K), Sep 4 (ANI): Facing acute shortage of potable water, the villagers are forced to drink polluted water in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
A prolonged drought-like situation has further added woes to the villagers.
Everyday, women cover long distances to fetch water from village streams and lakes, which are not fit for drinking. But since taps in their houses have run dry, they are forced to take the filthy water from lake.
The villagers had even held demonstrations in the past, highlighting their plight to the government, but to no avail.
“We have all kinds of difficulties. Despite our protest, the government has not made any arrangements. They take out funds but do nothing. We are suffering due to shortage of water,” said Ashiq Hussain Bhat, a resident.
Residents said they are forced to take the filthy water from the nearby lakes as taps have run dry.The water we take from this lake is very dirty and full of sand. But we are forced to take the dirty water from here as taps have run dry,” said Rubeena, another resident.
Accepting that there is shortage of water due to long spell of dryness, concerned officials said that they have initiated steps to end the water shortage in the district.
“To overcome this difficulty, the department has already taken up and has got a new scheme approved under the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) phase new. Under the scheme, we will lift the water from Phurunala and store it in a reservoir in Tuthigund, which will solve all their problems,” said Mukhtar Ahmad Dar, assistant executive engineer, Public Health Engineering (PHE), Kupwara.
Total rainfall in the country since the beginning of June was 19 percent below average, pulled down by the driest June in 83 years, data from the India Meteorological Department showed.
India’s monsoon will remain weak according to the latest Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) index, which gauges the eastward progress of tropical rain. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): To empower soldiers educationally and to provide them with an opportunity of a second career option after retirement, the Indian Army has come out with a plan according to which soldiers who join service after school can study for a degree in market driven courses.
The Indian Army will tie up with the Indira Gandhi National Open University to set up community colleges on the pattern of the US system of community colleges in its cantonments and other defence establishments to impart education in market-driven courses and soft skill programmes.
The Army will sign an MoU with IGNOU on September 4 to give academic diploma or associate degree and graduation degree to soldiers, which is seen as a step towards empowering the soldier to live a life with dignity and confidence after retirement.
The project named ‘Gyan Deep’ will benefit many of the 1.2 million soldiers of the Army. Nearly 50,000 trained soldiers retire every year from the army after an average of 15 years of service.
“The jawans will be given BA, BBA, BSc and BCom degrees depending on their area of work,” a senior officer said.
For soldiers who join after Class 10, the army will be organising bridge courses to bring them at par with those who have completed Class 12.
The Army-IGNOU Community colleges will function as autonomous bodies conducting examinations and their courses are hitherto fore. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)
Washington, September 2 (ANI): A study conducted in Canada has reinforced the correlation between being overweight, smoking and breast cancer.
Published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, the study is unique because it did not include subjects who were diagnosed for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which predispose women to breast cancer.
The study entirely focused on lifestyle factors like smoking, exercise, nutrition and weight.
All women analysed in the study were direct ancestors of the first French colonists.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study conducted on a sample of women without BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which are often found in French-Canadian women,” said lead researcher Vishnee Bissonauth, a graduate of the Universite de Montreal’s Department of Nutrition, and a researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center.
The study found that weight gains after the age of 20 increased the risk of breast cancer.
Where the weight gain was more than 15.5 kilos, the risk was found to increase by an average of 68 percent.
Risk increases depending on how late in life the weight gain occurs, according to the study.
Women who gained more than 10 kilos after age 30, or more than 5.5 kilos after age 40, were found to be almost twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer as a those whose weight was stable.
The study showed that the risk tripled if the body mass index was at its maximum after age 50.
Smoking a pack a day for nine years was also found to increase breast cancer risks by 59 percent.
Though the impact of smoking seemed to decrease for menopausal women, it remained at 50 percent.
Bissonauth stressed the need for more research into the correlation between smoking and breast cancer.
The researchers revealed that moderate physical activity appeared to decrease cancer risks by 52 percent for pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women.
The correlation was also observed for women who did intense physical activity, but the difference was not significant, said the lead researcher.
That finding, said Bissonauth, may be down to the fact that women who did moderate physical activity were more likely to do it regularly, while those who did intense physical activity were likely to quit after a few weeks.
“Cancer is a complex disease and can be latent for several years. Therefore, it is important to work on the factors we can control and to lead a healthy lifestyle, which means watching one’s weight, avoid smoking and doing regular exercise,” said Bissonauth. (ANI)
London, September 1 (ANI): A new survey has found that most British men living in cities have romantic notions of love and choose to settle down and have children than be womanizers.
Match.com, which conducted the poll, found that sixty-two per cent of men in London wish to marry compared with 46 per cent in the West Midlands and 47 per cent in Wales.
Also, 78 per cent of London’s males admit to wanting a family compared with a national average of 55 per cent.
“London men had developed a reputation of being unromantic but this new information seems to dispel this,” the Daily Express quoted Katie Sheppard of Match.com as saying.
She added: “If women are looking for their men to be chivalrous, romantic and committed, they could do far worse than looking for love in the capital.”
But the Londoners may be a little slow in expressing their love, as only 31 per cent could say “I love you” to the women they loved.
The study further revealed that men are more likely to want to have children than women – 59 per cent against 50 per cent.
Even in being romantic, they outdid women with 56 per cent believing that feelings would not fade, while only 49 per cent of women agreeing to it.
And finally, the survey suggested that the British men think a perfect life partner would be a 5ft 6in, 31-year-old teacher. (ANI)
London, Aug 28 (ANI): Men with high testosterone levels are more likely to have multiple wives, according to a new study.
They also give less attention to their kids.
High testosterone levels have been linked to increased sexual activity, infidelity and marital conflict. However, after men become fathers, their bodies typically pump out less of the hormone.
“This is good for us, so we can adapt to social challenges very quickly,” New Scientist quoted Alexandra Alvergne, an anthropologist at the University of Montpellier, France, and the University of Sheffield, UK, who led the new study, as saying.
In the study involving rural Senegalese villagers, the researchers underscored testosterone’s critical role in a mating and parenting.
Lead researcher Alexandra Alvergne, an anthropologist at the University of Montpellier, France, and the University of Sheffield, UK measured testosterone levels in 21 polygynous fathers as well as 32 monogamous dads and 28 unmarried men without children.
The researchers also asked the men’s wives about the time and money their husband spent to the family.
The findings revealed that no matter how many wives they had, fathers had lower testosterone levels than single men, on average.
It also showed that among fathers, those with more testosterone tended to invest less time in their wives and children.
And polygynous men under the age of 50 produced more testosterone than monogamous men, on average.
According to Alvergne, older men with more than one wife made less of the sex hormone than other men. While older men may make less testosterone, they typically enjoy more prestige in their villages, which could make it easier to find multiple wives.
The study appears in journal Hormones and Behavior. (ANI)
Lahore, Aug.27 (ANI): Former chief selector of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Abdul Qadir, has criticized the selection committee for omitting experienced all-rounder Abdul Razzaq from the ICC Champions Trophy squad.
Qadir also condemned the committee’s decision to ignore opening batsman Salman Butt for the eight nation tournament.
“I don’t know in what direction this present cricket board is taking Pakistan cricket into. There is no consistency in selection at all. Salman is your most experienced opener with an average of close to 40 in Tests and one-day internationals.Yet the selectors have ignored him for such a big tournament and instead opted for only one specialist opener in Imran Nazir,” Qadir said.
He expressed amazement at the exclusion of Razzaq, saying even though the all-rounder had performed well during the ICC World Twenty20 Championship, and did satisfactory job during the Sri Lanka tour, he was axed.
“If the board and selectors didn’t want to pick Razzaq for a major tournament like the Champions Trophy then why send him to Sri Lanka or England for the T20 World Cup in the first place,” The Daily Times quoted Qadir, as saying.
He also raised questions over the selection of tainted fast bowler Mohammad Asif in the 15-man squad.
“I don’t understand what was the hurry of picking Asif when he has not played for over a year. The pace department is already strong with Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamir, Rao Iftikhar and Rana Naved bowling well. So what was the point in rushing Asif into the main fray,” he said. (ANI)
Sydney, Aug.26 (ANI): New South Wales Test stars Stuart Clark, Simon Katich and Brad Haddin arrived back in Sydney this morning, and immediately stepped in to defend Ricky Ponting’s captaincy credentials, though he has become the second Australian skipper to surrender the Ashes twice in England.
“Ricky Ponting has got my full support and I think he’s the best man to be captain. “I think it’s ludicrous that anyone say anything other,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Clark, as saying.
Katich stressed every player had to take responsibility for the series loss.
“There was 11 of us out there that had an opportunity to win the Ashes – you can’t just blame it on one person,” said Katich, who scored 341 runs at an average of 42.
“We had our chances throughout the whole five Tests, unfortunately when those chances came around, whether it was Cardiff, Lords, The Oval, we didn’t grab them, so everyone put their hands up for that,” he added.
The dogged left-hander also refused to use queries about the team’s preparation for the five-Test series as an excuse.
“I think our preparation was fine. You can always look for plenty of excuses, but the bottom line is when we’re out there when the pressure was on, we didn’t take our chances,” he said.
Haddin, meanwhile, will have his broken finger checked out later today and is hopeful of being fit for next month’s Champions Trophy one-day tournament in South Africa. (ANI)
London, Aug 26 (ANI): Romantic presents like flowers and jewellery are fast becoming history, courtesy cash-strapped couples who prefer gifting useful and practical presents to each other.
That’s the conclusion of a new research.
The study revealed that almost 60 per cent of Britons preferred to buy a useful article as gift for their partners, rather than something that is not a necessity, reports the Scotsman.
The researchers found that most couples gifted jewellery to each other two decades ago. But now, they’ve been turned into gadgets like iPod, or DVDs and books.
Jewellery came in third in the list, but a kitchen gadget such as a breadmaker was named the fourth most popular gift.
One tenth of the couples admitted to have rarely gifted anything to their partners in order to save money, while one fifth said they did not exchange any gifts to save money.
The survey of 2,500 married Britons also showed that couples now spent about 196.47 pounds on each other at birthdays and Christmas, compared to nearly 230 pounds 20 years ago.
Three-quarters of today’s couples have even set limits on the amount of money to be spent on gifts, to ensure that neither overspends. Only 50 percent of those married 20 years ago followed the same.
It has also been found that people are spending less money on engagement rings. Twenty years ago men spent an average of two months’ income on their partner’s engagement ring, but now males spend just one month’s wages.
Jonathan Caplan, from gold-buying website www.mygoldmine.co.uk, said: “Times are harder, so it’s not surprising to see people are tightening their belts, but it’s sad to think that celebrations are taking the hit.
“Romantic gifts, however small, will be around and enjoyed far longer than the iPod, which will be forgotten for a newer model.” (ANI)
Washington, August 26 (ANI): A New study ahs shown that the brain predicts what one is going to see before the eyes take in a new scene.
Published in the Journal of Vision, a research article on the study reveals that people participating in it were asked to shift their eyes to a clock with a fast-moving hand, and to report the time on the clock when their eyes landed on it.
The report says that the average reported time was 39 milliseconds before the actual time.
As a control task, the clock moved instead of the eyes, and the reported arrival times averaged 27 milliseconds after the actual time.
“We’ve revealed a moment in time when things are not perceived as they actually are. These findings serve as a reminder that every aspect of our experience is constructed by our brains,” said lead researcher Dr. Amelia Hunt, of the University of Aberdeen’s School of Psychology.
The study suggests that the prediction is a result of remapping, where neurons involved in visual perception become active or dormant to help the brain maintain a stable visual environment despite the constant shift of images on the retina.
The report says: “Remapping allows locations to be continuously represented across the eye movement by maintaining both current and expected locations simultaneously, facilitating the transition between the two.” Hunt added: “The finding implies that we experience the predicted consequence of an eye movement as though it is actually occurring, albeit just for a moment.”
Hunt said that the research might lead to more investigation of the brain’s ability to predict and its role in perception, as well as the link between brain activity and actual experience.
She said that the next step might be to examine under what circumstances predictive processes occur, what function they serve, and to what degree they influence the perception of events. (ANI)
Sydney, Aug.23 (ANI): Former New South Wales coach and Australian keeper Steve Rixon expects forgotten opener Phil Jaques to return with such vengeance this season that he puts serious pressure on the Test partnership of Simon Katich and Shane Watson.
Rixon, who is the president of Sutherland grade club where Jaques plays, said the 30-year-old left-hander still faces an anxious time in his recovery from back surgery, but if he regains full fitness he could resume his place at the top of the Australia’s batting order.
“Jaquesy will put a lot of pressure on the Test openers this season, I’ve got no doubt. ‘He’ll be opening the batting with Hughesy [Phillip Hughes] this year in the NSW side and he will be planting runs on the board to the point where he will be hard to ignore,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Rixon, as saying.
In his 11 Test matches, Jaques scored 902 runs at an average of 47.47, including three centuries. In his most recent Test knock, in June 2008, he scored a second-innings 108. However, he was soon dropped for the returning Matthew Hayden.
By that time Jaques’s back problems were getting worse and he came home for an operation. He attempted a comeback before last summer’s tour of South Africa, but soon required another operation.
Hughes went to South Africa instead and became the opener of choice until Watson took over after the second Ashes Test.
Jaques has since been in the background but, despite losing his Cricket Australia contract, has refused to give up on his Test career, saying in May: “All I want to do is get back on the park. When I am fit and healthy I will put scores on the board, I know that.”
Rixon agrees.
“He’s a guy that’s a run machine. All he needs is his fitness back. That’s his priority. We’re very keen to get him back into club cricket at Sutherland as quickly as possible. He’s going to work doubly hard to get his body right. Severe back problems are not something you can get over easily,” he said.
Blues selector Brian Taber will closely monitor Jaques’s progress. He confirmed that Jaques was on track to play at the beginning of the grade season late next month.
“I hope he picks up where he left off. His last Test innings was a hundred,” Taber said. (ANI)
London, Aug 21(ANI): Australian paceman Peter Siddle has become the leading wicket taker in this Ashes series, and following the struggle that he had to go through in the first two Test matches, he is delighted with the achievement.
Siddle took four wickets for 63 runs on the opening day of the fifth Ashes Test match at The Oval, giving him 20 wickets at an average of just under 27.
“I didn’t even realise that. I’m just happy to be able to go out there now – with how I started in the series, I was a little bit disappointed personally – to now be a little bit more on track and bowling to how I like to play, and lucky enough to have had a bit of success,” The Daily Telegraph quoted Siddle, as saying.
“I’m happy if I can just bowl well and do well for the team, whether it’s bowling a lot of maidens and the bloke at the other end getting the wickets, or I’m getting the wickets,” he added.
Siddle further said that aggression comes naturally to him and has sharpened up his bowling consistency, which makes him feel comfortable and more at ease while bowling.
“I don’t think I had to change natural aggression. I showed in South Africa that’s the way I play my game and I went at just over two an over. I think it’s being more consistent and patient with my lines and lengths,” Siddle said.
“The aggression’s been the same all the way through the tour. I’ve sharpened up on the consistency that I’ve bowled with, and that’s probably working for me,” he added. (ANI)
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