PDCS writes: I sincerely hope that Dean Jones never comes back to the subcontinent again, in any capacity. He had displayed his ignorance consistently, while competing with Kiran More to be the worst commentator that I have had the privilege of listening to. But by calling the South African batsman Hashim Alva Amla a terrorist, he has shown himself to be an ignorant bigot.
This is not a stupid mistake. This is not an innocent joking remark a white man would make. This is the sort of ignorance which breeds intolerance and alienates good, moderate people.
Such comments have no place in cricket.
Such people have no place in cricket.
I sincerely hope Ten sports, ESPN-STAR, ZEE, Sahara, Doordarshan and PTV will overcome their white skin fetish while hiring commentators.
In 1986, Dean Jones was widely praised for his courageous double hundred. This time around, we have to say: shame on you, Dean Jones.
churumuri 
Add NDTV to the list – who brand him as Prof. Dean Jones with that crazy hat of his and pretending to do mathematical calculations!!
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He is Hashim *Amla* not Alva.
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Yep, apologies on behalf of the typasura. indeed, he is amla.
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Stupid insensitive goras. And leading them is another muff at the White House, due to whom the whole white world has the most illiterate notion of who are actual terrorists.
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Dean Jones for once needs some Amla(janaka) to survive for now!
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Gawd, how much I liked Dean Jones until yesterday…..
Yep, I loved to watch him play some good one day shots. And, I so distinctly rememebr the brilliant innings in the Madra test (the one which we tied, with Ravi Shastri and Maninder Singh at the end).
I still like his game…….but thank God he is out of the commentary box. Sometimes good things happen the hard way. I guess this was just one of those ways which was required to get Dean Jones out of the commentary box. Thank you God !
PDCS
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Here are a couple of articles in the Sydney Morning Herald. Alex Brown’s introspective commentary piece is good and points problems within the society rather than blaming someone else:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/jones-drops-us-down-the-order/2006/08/08/1154802888344.html
In the meanwhile, Jones gets to keep his summer job:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/jones-keeps-summer-job-despite-terrorist-jibe/2006/08/08/1154802849506.html
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People, dont make it look like Dean Jones is a villain…he said something stupid ( worse, got caught )and later apologised..if you read the text you will know his sincerity..
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