The Victorian retired from international cricket in a huff in 1994 but with a pile of runs behind him was soon ‘itching to get back in’
When the late Dean Jones marked his guard with that exaggerated scrape of his spikes, everyone else seemed to recede into the role of walk-on extras.
Oscillating between genius, belligerence, and chaos, sometimes within the space of a few balls, you could not take your eyes off “Deano”. Even when he supposedly shunned the spotlight 30 summers ago, Jones couldn’t help being the story.
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Source: Cricket - The Guardian
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