Background
Jones moved to Australia when she was three months old with her mother, residing in Melbourne.
Jones moved to Australia when she was three months old with her mother, residing in Melbourne.
Early Playing A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, she played 5 Test matches for Australia between 1998 and 2003, scoring 251 runs, highlighted by a 131 on debut against England in August 1998. Jones was the 134th women to play Test cricket for Australia. She has also played 61 One Day Internationals for Australia, scoring 1028 runs with an average in the low-twenties.
Jones played limited overs cricket in England for the now defunct Lancashire and Cheshire Women cricket team between 1994 and 1997 and the Surrey County women"s cricket team between 2003 and 2004.
She played 122 games for the Victorian Spirit in the Australian Women"s National Cricket League, and then five Women"s Twenty20 cricket games for the Tasmanian Roar. Cricket Australia put Jones" name forward in 2007 to commentate on the women"s Twenty20 international, covered by Australia"s Channel 9.
Since then, Jones has commentated on women"s internationals covered by Channel 9, as well as providing commentary for men"s and women"s games on American Broadcasting Company Radio. In 2015, Jones was announced as one of four female commentators to commentate on the 2015 Indian Premier League.
Later in 2015, Jones joined the Channel 10 coverage of inaugural season of the Women"s Big Bash League, and also provided boundary commentary during the 2015-2016 Big Bash League.
Personal Outside of cricket, Jones works for a sports management company. Jones has worked with Australian charity, Red Dust, which promotes health initiatives in remote Aboriginal communities.