I've read a bunch of Dean Jones obits and, a few exceptions apart, none even mention the Amla incident. No one's asking you to condemn the man, but to not even mention it?

There's some beautiful writing, some great evocations of how much the man meant to young Australians who watched him bat, and all that's great, but... come on.

One obit mentions how Jones supported the writer's wish that cricket (rightly) stop using the term chinaman. But it stops short of connecting the dots from what Walter Robins said about Ellis Achong to what Dean Jones said about Hashim Amla. Why?

All this mere weeks after Michael Holding's words on Sky and cricketers taking a knee and cricketers opening out about their experiences with racism in English cricket and the IPL and everywhere else.

You can't ask that cricket break away from old boy networks of one kind while propagating another kind. It's great to know Jones was generous with his time and knowledge with young journalists, but there's something discomfiting about pretty much every obit calling him "Deano".