Former Australian Cricketer Dean Jones Dies Of Heart Attack
Former Australia batsman Dean Jones died at the age of 59 due to a heart attack in Mumbai.
Former Australia cricketer Dean Jones died in Mumbai on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. He was 59. Jones was in Mumbai as a commentator for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020. It is understood that Brett Lee, his fellow commentator, tried to give him CPR but unsuccessfully. On Thursday morning Jones had breakfast with Lee and another commentator, Nikhil Chopra.
Jones endured an a monstrous respiratory failure in the entryway of the inn where he was remaining during the critique spell. “It is with incredible bitterness that we share the updates on the dying of Mr. Dignitary Mervyn Jones AM. He kicked the bucket of an abrupt heart failure,” Star India, who have the transmission of the IPL through Star Sports, said in an announcement.
“We express our profound sympathies to his family and stand prepared to help them in this troublesome time. We are in contact with the Australian High Commission to make the essential game plans.
“He was a hero analyst whose presence and introduction of the game consistently carried bliss to a huge number of fans. He will be painfully missed by everybody at Star and his a large number of fans over the globe.”
Jones played 52 Tests for Australia and scored 3631 runs at a normal of 46.55 with 11 centuries. He broadly hit a twofold century against India in the tied Test of 1986.
Jones likewise played 164 ODIs and scored 6068 runs at 44.61 with seven centuries. He was important for Australia’s 1987 World Cup-winning crew.
He made his Test and ODI debuts in 1984 and played his last global match in 1994.
The moniker “Teacher Deano” stayed with Jones in his post-retirement vocation when he functioned as a cricket investigator for some, channels including Star, who recruited his administrations as a specialist on their show “Select Dugout.”
For Indian fans, perhaps the best memory is from that 1986 Test in Chennai while throughout his epic 210-run thump he hurled on the field and must be conveyed to the emergency clinic after the innings.
“Stunned to catch wind of the deplorable loss of Dean Jones. Appealing to God for quality and fortitude to his loved ones,” tweeted India chief Virat Kohli.
“Truly stunning to lose an associate and a dear companion – Dean Jones. Gone so youthful. Sympathies to the family and may his spirit find happiness in the hereafter,” tweeted Jones’ partner in the analysis box and current India mentor Ravi Shastri.
Harsha Bhogle, another partner of Jones, conveyed a progression of tweets lamenting the Australian’s passing. “No, Deano. No. I am astounded. Also, in stun. Also, declining to acknowledge,” Bhogle composed on Twitter.
“Everybody has stories to recount Deano. Continuously magnificent to converse with, consistently provocative and one of the extraordinary admirers of cricket. In melancholy.
“You couldn’t help contradicting Deano, you tested his sanity more than you may with others. In any case, that was on the grounds that he was down. What’s more, when he concocted a hypothesis, you generally listened in light of the fact that it was sponsored by numbers. He cherished cricket however that was just one reason we adored him. Not really good or bad miserable,” Bhogle composed.
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