Men’s domestic one-day cup to be named in honour of Dean Jones: Cricket Australia | Cricket News
The men’s domestic one-day cup will be named in honour of cricketer Dean Jones, Cricket Australia (CA) revealed recently.
The late Jones who was 59 when he passed away in 2020 in India, was one of the greatest 50-overs player for Australia having scored 6068 runs in 164 matches at an average of 44.61 and a strike rate of 72.56. He was also one of the main reasons that Australia won the 1987 World Cup.
“Dad would be extremely proud to receive this acknowledgement. He loved representing Victoria in this competition and winning the 50-over World Cup for Australia in 1987 was what he described as the greatest cricketing day of his life,” Jones’s daughter Phoebe said in a statement as per ABC News.
In India, Jones will forever be remembered for his 210 in stifling conditions during the tied Test in 1986 in what was then Madras. Referring to the gruelling conditions later, he revealed that he had urinated in his pants at the crease, vomited beside the pitch, and hallucinated in the shower during the breaks. But he carried on “batting from memory”, he had said, on the urging of his captain Allan Border and manager Bob Simpson.
A member of the 1987 World Cup-winning team, Jones was a great ODI batsman, known as Border’s trusted No.3 and for his thunderous lofted shots over long-on and magnificent pulls. He was a great fielder near the boundary, too, often running in full-pelt and diving acrobatically to attempt catches that not many then even thought were possible. He was also one of the quickest runners between wickets.
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