NEVER HAS DEANO’S SLOGAN BEEN SO APT

ADAM COLLINS

Gone, but never forgotten: Dean Jones celebrates reaching a century during the third Cornhill Test against England at Edgbaston in 1989
PICTURES: PA Images

Bring Back Deano. For a generation of young Australians, it is a three-word slogan that meant, and will always mean, so much more than the proposition being advanced when the banners were hung around cricket grounds for years after Dean Jones was cynically dumped and finally retired. Instead, it was a rallying cry between knowing types – young boys and girls, usually brought up in Victoria (l...

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