- Aussie Check and one-day star suffered a stroke in India
- Has now been remembered by Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia has minted the Dean Jones Trophy, renaming its males’s home one-day competitors in honour of the game-changing batter.
Jones scored 6068 runs at a median of 44.61 in 164 ODIs for Australia, whereas he tallied 2122 runs at 50.52 in 55 video games for Victoria.
However these numbers fail to encapsulate one among cricket’s nice entertainers, who was famend for being a fluent run-scorer and his aggression whereas working between the wickets.
Jones died in 2020, having suffered a stroke in India at age 59.
Andrew Symonds, Michael Bevan and Jones had been shortlisted for the honour after a fan vote, with the Australian Cricket Corridor of Fame Committee saying its resolution on Friday morning.
‘On behalf of the Jones household we’re very grateful for this recognition of our dad, who we miss dearly,’ Dean Jones’ daughter Phoebe mentioned.
Pictured proper to left: Dean Jones’s daughters Phoebe and Augusta with their mom Jane on the MCG for the announcement that Australia’s males’s home one-day competitors has been renamed to honour the cricketing nice
Jones (pictured celebrating Christmas along with his daughters in 2019) is fondly remembered for his toughness and aggression on the sphere
‘It makes it further particular realizing its fan-voted and can be unveiled at the moment at what he nicknamed ‘his workplace’ on the MCG.
‘Dad can be extraordinarily proud to obtain this acknowledgement. He liked representing Victoria on this competitors and successful the 50-over World Cup for Australia in 1987 was what he described as the best cricketing day of his life.’
Phoebe was joined by her sister Augusta and their mom Jane for the announcement on the MCG.
Cricket Australia chief government Nick Hockley was thrilled the trophy was being renamed in honour of ‘an icon of the sport and pioneer in one-day cricket, who entertained followers world wide’.
‘He was a World Cup winner, an innovator and possessed probably the greatest data in 50-over cricket for the period that he performed,’ Hockley mentioned.
Jones was working as a commentator in Mumbai when tragedy struck on September 24, 2020.
He collapsed within the foyer of his lodge regardless of the frantic efforts of his fellow Aussie ex-cricket star, Brett Lee, who tried to save lots of his life by performing CPR.
An aesthetic right-handed batsman, Jones performed in an period of nice change in Australian cricket.
He performed his first of 52 Checks towards the mighty West Indies at Port of Spain in 1982 along with his most well-known innings his double century within the tied Madras Check in 1986.
‘Deano’ was forward of his time when it got here to the way in which one-day internationals are performed
Jones is pictured with one other Aussie nice who died far too quickly, Shane Warne
There, he spent greater than eight hours on the crease in 42C warmth and extreme humidity for his 210.
It earned him not solely a spot in Australian cricket folklore, however left him on a drip in hospital after shedding eight kilos and any reminiscence of the second half of his innings.
For all his toughness proven in that knock, Jones led the way in which along with his aggression within the white-ball sport throughout an period the place groups had been nonetheless cautious with their ODI batting.
His 6068 runs within the format was the second highest of all-time when he performed his final match in 1994, whereas his strike-rate of 72.56 was additionally brisk for that period.
He performed with flamboyance, not afraid to stroll down the pitch to bowlers, attacked when working between the wickets and saved runs within the discipline.
In the meantime, the person of the match within the last will now be awarded the Michael Bevan Medal to honour the previous Aussie star, who was thought to be the sport’s greatest one-day batter on the peak of his profession.
This season’s last can be staged on March 1.
