Why was Dean Jones dropped from the Australian Cricket Team?
He was controversially dropped from the test team at the start of the 1992-93 season, despite having topped the averages in the previous test series, against Sri Lanka.[2] The decision dumbfounded many Australian cricket fans, given his reasonably good form at the time, and sparked calls from some in the media that his axing was due to a personal vendetta the then Australian coach Bob Simpson held against Jones. Other commentators suggested that Jones’s penchant for publicly questioning the motives and decisions of the national team selectors brought a premature end to his Test career. Jones stayed in the one-day team a little longer: he was omitted from the one-day team for the 1993 Ashes tour, but managed to force his way back into the team for one last stint during the 1993-94 season, before being dropped for good.
