Talk:Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963)

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No mention of his innings to help save the Johannesburg Test against South Africa in 1995/6

Rewrite needed
I've put in a rewrite tag, because I think this article needs to be completely overhauled rather than just tweaked. As implied by the tone tag added by another editor some time ago, the tone is wrong: the article as it stands reads more like a newspaper article than anything else, and is somewhat POV in places. The section about 1989 is a case in point: it's good reading, but not really encyclopedic. Trivia sections are increasingly frowned on in Wikipedia, and I'm sure we don't need to list all Russell's idiosyncrasies, or this article would be about 50K! But I think the article needs stripping right down and rebuilding by someone who knows their stuff much better than I do. Loganberry (Talk) 03:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I've done what I can... Rothorpe 22:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks; I think that's a significant improvement. Loganberry (Talk) 22:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I have thrashed my way through and sprinkled fact tags where they are sorely needed. Despite the valiant efforts of the editors above the article was still a fansite/newspaper article/flamboyantly written blog page in a number of places. Hopefully I have culled most of this now, and left another tone tag to bring in other editors to do the final work. SGGH speak! 10:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I was endeavouring to add references to this article and clean it up a little. In doing so, have identified that the article may have originally been a copyright violation. Please see here. Not sure how you want to handle it? Regards, Spy007au (talk) 21:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In all honesty, it might still be easier to start almost from the ground up. For example, there's still not one word about his vital supporting role to Mike Atherton in Johannesburg in 1995-96, and very little about his post-1989 career in general. Loganberry (Talk) 23:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Blindfolded visitors
Jonathan Agnew did say on TMS that he did visit Russell - and had to be blindfolded for the last few miles. I don't know if he's ever mentioned this in any of his books as citation.

87.228.148.66 (talk) 13:32, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

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Arfo maverick
Seriously, what does that mean? BillhomEls (talk) 15:52, 3 January 2021 (UTC)