Cricket Australia (CA) has introduced the boys’s home one-day cup might be named in honour of Dean Jones.
Jones, who died of a coronary heart assault in India in 2020 aged 59, was one in all Australia’s best ODI gamers, scoring 6,068 runs throughout 164 appearances within the format.
He averaged 44.61 and completed with a strike fee of 72.56 on the finish of his worldwide profession, which included serving to Australia win its first males’s World Cup in 1987.
Jones additionally captained Victoria to the 1994/95 males’s home one-day cup title.
The lads’s home one-day cup champions will obtain the Dean Jones Trophy following the ultimate on March 1.
Jones’s daughter Phoebe mentioned her household was grateful for the popularity.
“Dad can be extraordinarily proud to obtain this acknowledgement,” Phoebe Jones mentioned in an announcement.
“He beloved representing Victoria on this competitors and successful the 50-over World Cup for Australia in 1987 was what he described as the best cricketing day of his life.”
CA chief government Nick Hockley mentioned it was becoming Jones obtained the honour.
“Dean Jones is an icon of the sport and pioneer in in the future cricket, who entertained followers all over the world wherever he performed,” Hockley mentioned.
“He was a World Cup winner, an innovator and possessed the most effective information in 50-over cricket for the period that he performed.
“We’re delighted to acknowledge his legacy in perpetuity by naming our premier one-day home competitors in his honour.”
The Australian Cricket Corridor of Fame Committee beneficial Jones obtain the honour after greater than 10,000 folks voted on CA’s digital platforms.
CA additionally introduced the participant of the boys’s remaining will obtain the Michael Bevan Medal.
