Jack Russell indulges in his favourite pastime at Georgetown in Guyana during the 1998 West Indies tour. It nearly ended Russell’s tour, but salvation came in another repair job. His roommate Angus Fraser recalled that when he pulled his beloved chapeau out he touched the top and it, “collapsed as though it was puff-pastry”. In an attempt to dry it quickly after a day’s exertions Russell put his hat in the oven only to get momentarily distracted. He thumbs the tattered lump of cloth lovingly and points out the singed marks still visible after a near catastrophe during the tour of the West Indies in 1998. He famously wore the same sacred sunhat for the entirety of his 23-year playing career. “Am I in fashion? I’ve been seeing moustaches, long hair at the back and now bucket hats! I wouldn’t qualify for Bazball, though, I could barely hit it off the square.”īen Stokes and company’s Spike Island headgear has inspired Russell to dig out his own. Russell can even see a bit of himself in the current England men’s Test side, in their latest sartorial accessory at least. I don’t miss playing but right now I wouldn’t mind getting back out in the middle – they do that to you, the Aussies.” Now approaching his 60th birthday, the hair and toothcomb ’tache are closer clipped these days but the finest keeper of his generation admits to a tingling in his fingertips ever since Australia landed a few weeks ago.
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