R.I.P - Dean Jones

[Bornadog]

Sad News:

Australian cricket legend Dean Jones passed away - he was working in Star Select dugout for #IPL2020 as one of the commentators.

[angelopetraglia]

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RIP. Childhood hero. “We love you ‘cause your Victorian”.

[The Underdog]

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Hell of a cricketer. Bloody sad

[whythelongface]

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Jeepers. That is sad. Still young.

[FrediKanoute]

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Was stunned when this came up in my feed.....RIP Deano! We love you coz you're a Victorian!

[Eastdog]

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Very sad to hear. An Australian and Victorian cricket icon. My condolences to his family and friends. 2020 has been a tough year.

[jeemak]

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2020 is complete caca. RIP Deano.

[Ozza]

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Can't believe it.

Loved him as a player - as a young kid, the first time I got taken to a test match at the G', I picked out a Dean Jones badge from the merch stand. Remember his 145 off 133 balls v England at the Gabba so vividly (back when making a ton in an ODI was a ridiculous feat).

Way too young to go , and sadly we didn't see as much of him in the baggy green as we should have.

[Hotdog60]

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RIP Deano,

One of my favorite cricket matches was at the Adelaide oval in the mid 80's when he took a run on the last ball which was wide in a ODI and got stranded on 99.
Border got a ton and him and Jones had some big hits.

[The Pie Man]

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My first bat was a County. This year needs to end already

[ratsmac]

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Shocking news. R.I.P Jonesy
Condolences to his family and friends.

[Bornadog]

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Feel sorry for Brett Lee who tried to revive him.

[jeemak]

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His continued omission from the test and one day side in the early 90s through my Dad's commentary laid bare the politics of sport to me at a very young age.

It was the starting point to knowing that cricket is a game full of egotistical *!*!*!*!wits and merit is only half the criteria to play at the highest level.

As much as I adore the game, I hate the folks who play and administer it from a political perspective. I'll always admire Deano for what he did on the field, and I'll always admire him for exposing how much of a shit show the game is off the field.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Very sad news to hear of Deano's passing in India overnight.
He was a wonderful batsman, who was one of the first Australians to really lead the change of style in one day cricket towards what we see today.

Having re-watched a lot of older early to late 80's one day cricket of late on Foxtel, it sticks out how different he was to the majority of other Australian cricketers, and most others around the world at the time. Many of those old games were played in such a risk averse manner.


He understood what One Day cricket should be about, how an appropriate appetite for risk could really set a team up for victory. He demonstrated the importance of amassing quick singles, rotating the strike, building pressure on the bowler and fielders, picking his moments and targeting the right bowler, and when in the field, he worked hard to prevent every run.

No doubt he must've been a polarising figure in the dressing room, because his statistics show he should've played a lot more Test cricket than the 52 tests he played. You don't average around 46.5 in Test Cricket in the 80's-90's if you are average.
Two Test innings stick out for me; his 210 in Madras, and then his 216 against a mighty West Indies in 1989.
I just could not understand as a young man why his talent could not have been harnessed better and for longer.

Gone way to early at only 59.