Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has taken a dig at Australian selectors in the wake of cricket legend Dean Jones' death.

The Australian battling great died in Mumbai after suffering a heart attack.

Tributes flooded in worldwide and the Victorian Premier added his thoughts and condolences to the family.

“Dean Jones was the epitome of grit, determination and sheer fight,” Andrews wrote on Twitter.

“He rewrote the rule book for the one-day game — and should have been picked for many more than his 52 Tests.

“A legend of sport. A legend of this state. And we love him ‘cause he’s Victorian.”

Jones' Test cricket career came to an abrupt halt after he was dropped in 1992 despite scoring 3631 runs in 52 tests.

He retired from international cricket in protest.

“I said, ‘Are you trying to tell me that you’re a better player than me, in one-day cricket? Really? Well, that’s it, I’m done’,” Jones said on the Lessons Learnt with the Greats podcast recently.

“And I retired straight away. That was it. They (the selectors) said, ‘No, you’ve got to go to Sharjah to play all these one-day series’.

“I’m going no, I went on, (and) that was it. No thank you, no nothing. That was it.”