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‘When he showed up, it was like Christmas’: Hodge pays tribute to Deano – The Age
Former Australian cricketer Brad Hodge recalls his days playing alongside the fellow Victorian he had idolised as a youngster.
“Before that, I was a massive Kim Hughes fan, and Allan Border, but it evolved into Deano. We used to buy the cricket magazines and get the posters and Deano was one which I always put up.”
That Jones had a touch of showtime about him, with zinc cream smeared on his bottom lip and being the first international cricketer to don sunglasses on the field, made him even more appealing to any youngster growing up in the 1990s.
“I enjoyed that. He did it for his own reasons but it does make you stand out…
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