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Russell, the real 'Jack' of all trades
ISLAMABAD. Feb 7:(AFP): England wicketkeeper Robert Charles Russell is better known as Jack. He could not have been blessed with a more suitable nickname.
Jack Russell is as. dogged cricketer as they come and his teammates are convinced he is barking mad.
The evidence — on both scores — Is overwhelming.
His never-say die defiance
was much in evidence last year, when the 32-year-old resurrected his career in extraordinary fashion. Just in time for the World Cup.
Recalled Bfter 15 months In the wilderness, Russell, whose batting has always been considered too weak for the top level, played a crucial innings to set up England's series-levelling win over the West Indies at Old Trafford.
Then, after adding 91 in the final Test, he headed for
South Africa where he notched up an unbeaten 50 in the first five-dayer before claiming a world record 11 dismissals in the second, as well as a four-and-a-half-hour
unbeaten innings alongside his captain to save the game.
If that wasn't enough, he then hit a career-best 129 against Boland — giving him a tour average of 94.25 at that stage — added nine dismissals in the fourth Test and finished the fifth with an England record of 27 tour dismissals.
Suddenly, the man who used to shy away from fast
bowling had transformed himself into an all-rounder.
It didn't take South African fans long to realise, however, that there was something distinctly odd about the diminutive terrier from Stroud in the English west country.
First there was the fact that he batted in sunglasses, looking more like a Los Angeles motorbike patrolman than a cricketer. Then there was that unique style of his, en-
raging bowlers by shaping up to play before swinging his bat extravagantly inside the fine.
Reports of his personal eccentricities followed. That he was hooked on tea (he drinks around 20 cups a day) and baked beans. That he had worn the same white floppy hat while wicketkeeping since the age of 17.
That he only washed his cricket shirt under protest and that he had remained loyal to the same pair of gloves for over ten years.
Russell is also a fanatic military historian and an accomplished professional painter. While the rest of the England party headed for South African beaches, golf courses or the gym. he retreated to boer battlefields, paintbox in hand.
It was this same intro-
verted nature which had
been on the verge of wrecking his Career.
Teams, after all, don't function well when they contain dotty loners who never say anything other than "how about a cup of char ?”
Russell was saved — from himself — by being persuaded to take on the Gloucestershire captaincy last year. The t him
He had to discard that famous notebook, in which he scribbled details of every dismissal he made and every chance he missed, and think instead about the needs of his teammates. To his surprise, he found he had leadership qualities.
Russell admits he has mellowed. "I'm nqt so intense as 1 used to be," he says. But he Is puzzled by the change that he Is not your average cricketer.
"1 think I'm quite normal but everybody else says I'm an eccentric.” he adds.
He ended England's tour of South Africa also providing that he has an improviser's talent perfectly suited to the limited-over game. England may have been losing, but in Johannesburg their wicketkeeper .was making 18 from 12 balls and in Pretoria an unbeaten 39 from 19.
If England win the World Cup. the champagne — and the tea — will flow.