Australian veteran batsman Dean Jones died in Mumbai on Thursday. Born in Melbourne on 24 March 1961, Jones breathed his last at the age of 59. Jones was currently commenting on the IPL 2020 from Mumbai. Jones made his debut in 1984, playing in the West Indies. In the first innings of his Test career, he had scored 48 runs.
After retirement, he had made a mark as a successful commentator. This time he was doing a commentary from Mumbai in the IPL. Jones was part of the IPL commentary panel this time, with Brett Lee, Brian Lara, Graeme Swann and Scott Styris doing commentaries from Mumbai. Today the sixth match of IPL is to be played between RCB and KXIP and before that cricket fans have received this sad news, which makes the fans very sad.
Jones played 52 Tests in his career and scored 3631 runs during this period. Which included 11 centuries and 14 half-centuries. Apart from this, in Australia, this Australian batsman scored 6068 runs after playing 164 matches. Jones scored 7 centuries and 46 half-centuries in ODIs.
Dean Jones has performed well in his first class career. Jones scored 19188 runs in 245 first class matches, including 55 centuries and 88 half-centuries. Apart from this, 285 lists scored 10936 runs in a match. Jones has 19 centuries and 72 fifties in List A cricket.
