Family bid farewell to Australian great Jones with lap of MCG


  • Cricket
  • Wednesday, 07 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Derbyshire Photocall 1997 - County Ground Dean Jones - Derbyshire Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Stuart Franklin FILM

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The life of Australian cricketer Dean Jones was remembered at a small, private funeral over the weekend which included a lap of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, video footage posted online on Wednesday showed.

Former test and one-day batsman Jones died at 59 last month after suffering a cardiac arrest at a hotel in India where he was working as a TV pundit for a local broadcaster.

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