Dean Jones

They're pretty much, after that time, they weren't great fun and they went on for a number of years afterwards, progressively getting less interesting.

But there was a Dean Jones tribute match.

Now, as this built towards the Dean Jones tribute match, there was the sense that, no, Dino's coming out of retirement, but he can't really come out of retirement until he's played his tribute match, his testimonial match.

So I just wanted to, there's lots of great names out that played in this game.

I went to this game and sadly it was not covered by Channel 9.

This is the AB11.

So this is the team playing.

It's the Dino 11.

There was a couple of Steve Smith shots last night running down the wicket.

I thought it was Dean Jones batting.

Yeah.

There was something there.

The next two are draws.

A little bit of rain interruption.

Why, you know, these next two tests mean something because they are Dean Jones's last tests for Australia.

Now he scores special subjects.

And then.

Famous one, 92, 93 finals, World Series Cup finals, when the late Dean Jones asked Kirtley Ambrose to remove his wristbands.

And not only does Kirtley run through Australia that night, but he spends the rest of the summer getting backwards.

At that point, Australia was sort of on top of the summer and then Ambrose completely turns around the summer and demolishes them in the last test to win.

I reckon they lived in Blackrock at the time.

And just, I can remember as clear as day that happening and dad was just aghast knowing what was about to be unleashed.

As a kid, a massive Dean Jones fan, I was sitting in a caravan watching it and I was like, oh, I think you might've done the wrong thing.

Buyer's remorse.

Remember Teletext? Yes.

The Teletext you had on the TV? We were trying to get scores off that one day following Victoria and Dean Jones making runs or something like that.

You can now watch every, every shield game on KO at any, at any time or Fox or wherever it sits, but it's, it's very accessible.

Um, so there's no reason why we can't see like the crowd we saw on Sunday at, at the shield game.

So it was a nice life lesson to learn as a 28-, 29-year-old.

It sounds a bit like a Dean Jones

innings that he never told anyone about where he was very unwell and was vomiting, but amassed a huge score.

But he would just not talk about it if you know anything about Dean Jones.

You've also played county cricket in England.

So cricket has taken you all around the world.

So the 1988 test, Australia, 455, and then beat Sri Lanka, who are forced to follow on.

Dean Jones makes a century in the 455.

Then the names that will go on to become, so Ranjan Madagali is the captain, Aravinda De Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga are in the team.

And Ravi Ratnaika.