Imagine you are 25 years old, batting for Australia in Madras. It is 40°C. The humidity is 80%. By the time you reach a hundred, you are vomiting on the pitch. You lose control of your bladder. Your memory of the day starts to go blank. You walk up to your captain and tell him you have to retire hurt. Allan Border does not call for a doctor. He calls you a weak Victorian and says he'll send out a real Australian instead. A Queenslander. Greg Ritchie. So you stay. You bat on out of pure rage, and you make 210. Then they help you to the shower, and from the shower to hospital, where you end up on a saline drip, around 8 kilos lighter than when the Test began. And the match you nearly broke yourself for? Five days later, it ends in a tie. Only the second tied Test in history. That was Dean Jones, 40 years ago today. One of the bravest innings Test cricket has ever seen, and the game still refused to give him a winner.