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IT'S 27 years on Thursday since Dean Jones made his epic, vomit laced 210 in the famous tied Test against India.
His former captain Allan Border has recalled how he got Jones to carry on through devastating illness using the words, "We'll get a Queenslander out here."
That, says Border, inspired Jones to stay on the field and play his career-defining innings in the oppressive Indian heat during the famous tied Test of 1986.
Speaking exclusively to foxsports.com.au, ahead of the India tour earlier this year, Border, talked of how he used interstate rivalry to inspire Jones to continue batting in Madras, despite the fact the Victorian batsman was suffering intense dehydration that had seen him vomit on the field several times.
In conditions that Border - who many forget also made a hundred in that match - compares to "playing cricket in a sauna bath", Jones was ready to leave the pitch until his skipper intervened.
"I was wanting him to stay out there because he was batting so well, and of course I didn't know just how distressed he was," Border says.
"I knew Greg Ritchie was in next, and I knew there would be some easy quip I could make to fire him up, so I said, 'Yeah well that's okay mate, if you want to go off now we'll get someone out here tough, we'll get a Queenslander out here'."
"I can't repeat the words he said back to me, but he did stay on, he made another 30 or 40 … and the legend was born."
Jones tweeted about the comments on Thursday night.
After finally making his way from the ground, Jones collapsed and was sent to hospital soon after.
But that was far from the only drama in that Test match, as it went on to become just the second in history to end in a tie.
Border admits that, amidst the euphoria of Greg Matthews taking a wicket with the penultimate ball of the match, there was a moment when he thought Australia had actually won.
"Just for a moment there, because I was diving for the ball fielding at bat pad, just for a moment I thought, 'we've won!' ... and then all of a sudden it started to sink in. This had been a tied Test match.
"It was quite an incredible feeling to be a part of."
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