Dean Jones, who died on Thursday aged 59 of a heart attack in Mumbai, where he was working on television coverage of the Indian Premier League, was a very good batsman for Australia, a keen student of the game who was ahead of his time in analysing it, and the man who turned the tide of Ashes cricket.

England had won the 1985 Ashes very easily, as easily as any series since the 19th century. The players were not alone in laughing at Australia, lacking some rebels who had toured apartheid South Africa, and their lowly standards. In the Ashes of 1986-87, England again brushed Australia aside, going 2-0 up and retaining the urn, before the worm turned – where it stayed until 2005.

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