{"id":326792,"date":"2020-09-24T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326792"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:36:04","slug":"former-australian-cricketer-dean-jones-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-australian-cricketer-dean-jones-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326796 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dean-jones-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/dean-jones-1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/dean-jones-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/dean-jones-1-441x420.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones passed away on Thursday after suffering a massive heart attack.\u00a0He was 59.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jones was in India as part of the Star Sports commentary team for Indian Premier League (IPL).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Captain Virat Kohli also expressed shock over his demise and in a tweet said, \u201cShocked to hear about the tragic loss of Dean Jones. Praying for strength and courage to his family and friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">IPL tweeted, \u201cWe are extremely shocked and sad to learn of the untimely demise of Mr. Dean Jones. His energy and enthusiasm for the game will be truly missed. Our thoughts with his family, friends and his followers in this hour of grief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Star India, in its official statement, said, &#8220;It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing away of Mr. Dean Mervyn Jones AM. He died of a sudden cardiac arrest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe express our deep condolences to his family and stand ready to support them in this difficult time. We are in touch with the Australian High Commission to make the necessary arrangements,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones passed away on Thursday after suffering a massive heart attack.\u00a0He was 59. Jones was in India as part of the Star Sports commentary team for Indian Premier League (IPL). Indian Captain Virat Kohli also expressed shock over his demise and in a tweet said, \u201cShocked to hear about the tragic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[13480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326799,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326792\/revisions\/326799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}