DEAN Jones, 59, who collapsed to his death after a cardiac arrest in the city on Thursday while on duty as a TV expert for the Indian Premier League, was swift and practical in everything he did. He was hare-like when it came to running between wickets, scored his runs fast and was never keen on an unwarranted stay at the crease. Jones was part of Australia's 1987 World Cup-winning squad which beat England in the final at Kolkata.

When he reached 176 enroute his epic 210 against India in the 1986 Tied Test at Chennai, a dehydrated Jones told his captain Allan Border that he wanted to go off because he was ruining the proceedings due to constant vomiting. Border suggested that he was a weak Victorian, to which Jones responded by telling Border that he would shove his bat into him and that he couldn't be spoken to like that. Jones stayed and went on to play one of, if not the most courageous knocks in Australian cricket history.