Happy Birthday @jackrussellart
A significant part of this page even though he doesn’t feature!
I vowed to give up collecting autographs once the players were younger than me!
Gloucestershire called up a lad called Robert Russell and I hung up my pens, retired from this hobby.
Happy Birthday Robert Charles Russell, known as Jack Russell, was a painter and wicketkeeper.
Set a world record with 11 dismissals in a Test at Johannesburg in 1995.
Played 54 Tests for England, taking 165 dismissals.
Scored two Test centuries and made a crucial 29* in the 1995 Johannesburg Test.
Helped Gloucestershire win three one-day trophies in 2000 after retiring from International cricket.
Cricketers Autographs of the 70s & 80s retweeted
Gladstone Small - Warwickshire & England
Barbados born pace bowler who played in 17 Test matches and 53 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team.
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Keith Pont - Essex County Cricket Club – at Greenwich, London
Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge 🇧🇧
At the age of 21 on the cusp of becoming one of the greatest opening batsmen of all-time with Hampshire & the West Indies.
And one of the more difficult autographs to get.
RIP Judge
Robin Smith, who passed on today
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Bishan Bedi - India 🇮🇳
Commonly misspelt in cricket magazines and periodicals throughout his long and storied career. – at Greenwich, London
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Geoff Boycott - Yorkshire & England
108 Test Matches between 1964 - 1982
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Gloucestershire v Surrey circa 1980
Graham Roope & Andy Brassington🧤
#CountyChampionship
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Alan Knott - Kent🧤
Keeping wicket for England against Bernard Julien and the West Indies
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Mohinder Amarnath - India 🇮🇳
Man of the Match in the 1983 World Cup Final for his resistance against the best pace attack in the world, and 3 vital wickets. He plays 69 Tests scoring 4,378 runs at a batting average of 42.50, with 11 hundreds and 24 fifties.
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Andy Roberts - West Indies
Antiguan fast bowler who played Test cricket for West Indies 47 times. Was a member of the team that won both the 1975 & 1979 Cricket World Cups. Arriving in England in 1972, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club.
#fast – at Greenwich, London
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England v West Indies - Oval 1976
Umpires Dickie Bird & Bill Alley
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Ken Palmer & Dickie Bird
#umpire
Derek Randall - Nottinghamshire & England
47 Tests for England between 1977 - 1984. Exceptional in the field and often described as “a character”
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