Former Indian cricketers don’t have any stand-out memories of Denness. Bishen Singh Bedi remembers him as "just a reasonable batsman, nothing outstanding about him". Says Bedi: "He has never been a brave player. I have never seen him encouraging fellow players. He also came across as a very overbearing kind of a captain. From what I remember, he never really got along well with Geoffrey Boycott.". Former Indian captain Ajit Wadekar is more acerbic: "I remember him as a typical Englishman, pompous, reserved and extremely difficult, at least for me, to talk to. He didn’t talk much to any of us on or off the field." Abbas Ali Baig echoes the same sentiment: "I don’t recall him at all. That, I guess, speaks volumes of him as a cricketer. He dropped himself as the captain in Australia because his own form was not good." Denness sneaked back into the team in the final Test on finding out that the dreaded Lillee-Thomson pace duo was not playing the match.