Dean Jones (cricketer)

Dean Jones
Personal information
Full name Dean Mervyn Jones
Born (1961-03-24) 24 March 1961
Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off spin
Role Batsman, coach, commentator
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 324) 16 March 1984 v West Indies
Last Test 13 September 1992 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 79) 30 January 1984 v Pakistan
Last ODI 6 April 1994 v South Africa
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1981–1998 Victoria
1996–1997 Derbyshire
1992 Durham
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 52 164 245 285
Runs scored 3,631 6,068 19,188 10,936
Batting average 46.55 44.61 51.85 46.93
100s/50s 11/14 7/46 55/88 19/72
Top score 216 145 324* 145
Balls bowled 198 106 2,710 802
Wickets 1 3 27 23
Bowling average 64.00 27.00 57.22 30.69
5 wickets in innings – – 1 0
10 wickets in match – n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/5 2/34 5/112 2/0
Catches/stumpings 34/– 54/– 185/– 114/–
Source: CricketArchive, 26 January 2009

Dean Mervyn Jones AM (born 24 March 1961) is an Australian retired cricketer, and a current coach. He works as a sports commentator.

Career

Jones began his first class career in the 1981–82 season with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He was selected on the 1984 tour of the West Indies after Graham Yallop had to pull out due to injury . He was not picked in the original XI, but was drafted into the side after Steve Smith fell ill. Jones himself was very ill before the Test, and deemed his score of 48 on his debut as his "best knock".[1]

Between 1984 and 1992, Jones played 52 Test matches for Australia, scoring 3,631 runs, including 11 centuries, at an average of 46.55.

His most notable innings was in only his third Test against India in the Tied Test in Chennai (Madras) in 1986. Suffering from dehydration in the oppressively hot and humid conditions, Jones was frequently vomiting on the pitch. He wanted to go off the field "retired ill" which led his captain Allan Border to say that if he could not handle the conditions, "then let's get a Queenslander" (Greg Ritchie, a Queenslander like Border, was the next man in to bat). This comment spurred Jones to score 210, an innings he considered a defining moment in his career and one of the epic Test innings in Australian cricket folklore.[1]

Jones was one of Australia's most successful batsmen in One Day International matches. In 164 matches he scored 6,068 runs, including seven centuries and 46 half centuries, at an average of 44.61. His strike rate of 72.56, while pedestrian by modern standards, was a benchmark at the time. Jones played in the 1987 World Cup winning team, and was noted for his electric running between the wickets, outstanding out-fielding and aggressive batting especially against fast bowlers. With his positive, aggressive and flamboyant style of play he became a crowd favourite.

Jones went on to be a mainstay of the Australian Test team middle order over the next six years and being one of the stars of the successful 1989 Ashes tour of England. He was controversially dropped from the test team at the start of the 1992–93 season, despite having topped the averages in the previous Test series, against Sri Lanka.[2]

Jones stayed in the one-day team a little longer: he was omitted from the one-day team for the 1993 Ashes tour, but managed to force his way back into the team for one last stint during the 1993–94 season, before being dropped .

Jones also played for Durham and Derbyshire in the English County Championship. He left Derbyshire in mid-season and also had run-ins with authority and team mates in his home state of Victoria. During his career, he scored 19,188 runs in first class matches, including 55 centuries and 88 half centuries and a highest score of 324 not out, at an average of 51.85.

Jones is now a coach and a commentator.

He is also a noted fundraiser for people with cancer. On 12 June 2006, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for "service to cricket as a player, coach and commentator, and to the community through fundraising activities for organisations assisting people with cancer".

Jones publicly expressed his disappointment at not being considered for selection as coach of the Indian cricket team in 2005; another former Australian batsman Greg Chappell was selected instead.

Dean Jones' career performance graph.

Coaching career

Pakistan Super league

He is currently the Head Coach of Islamabad United in PSL 2016 and they won the first ever PSL in Feb-2016

Controversy

Jones' commentating contract with Ten Sports was terminated after referring to South African player Hashim Amla as a "terrorist" on 7 August 2006. When Amla, who is a Muslim with a full beard, took a catch, Jones was heard to say "the terrorist gets another wicket". Jones made the comment during a commercial break, but the comment went to air live in South Africa as its broadcast had not been interrupted. He has since apologised to all concerned.[3]

In July 2010, Jones was stripped of his 2007 Father of the Year title after he admitted that he had a nine-year affair with a flight attendant, and fathered a son whom he had never seen.[4][5][6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 'I'm trying to hit sixes in the commentary box'
  2. ↑ Australia in Sri Lanka, Aug–Sep 1992 – Test Averages
  3. ↑ Dean Jones sacked after 'terrorist' remark
  4. ↑ Dawn Archive, Dean Jones stripped of 2007 Father of the Year award
  5. ↑ TimesOfIndia, Dean Jones stripped of Father of the Year Award
  6. ↑ IndiaToday

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Kim Barnett		 Derbyshire cricket captains
1996–1997 		Succeeded by
Dominic Cork
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