Sid Russell

Sid Russell

Personal information
Full name	Sidney Edward James Russell
Born	(1937-10-04)4 October 1937 Feltham, Middlesex, England
Died	Quebec, Canada
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm medium pace
Role	Middle order batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1960-1964	Middlesex
1965-1968	Gloucestershire
First-class debut	21 May 1960 Middlesex v Oxford University
Last First-class	2 September 1968 Gloucestershire v Somerset
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A Matches 142 5 Runs scored 5464 131 Batting average 23.86 26.20 100s/50s 4/21 -/1 Top score 130 62 Balls bowled 234 8 Wickets 2 1 Bowling average 60.50 4.00 5 wickets in innings - - 10 wickets in match - - Best bowling 1-8 1-4 Catches/stumpings 41/- 2/-
Source: CricketArchive, 10 Sept 2008

Sid Russell

Personal information
Full name	Sidney Edward James Russell
Position(s)	Left back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1956–1961	Brentford	54	(0)
	Bexleyheath & Welling
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sidney Edward James Russell (4 October 1937 – 18 June 1994) was an English cricketer and footballer.

Sid Russell was born in Feltham, Middlesex and played in 142 first-class cricket matches for Middlesex (1960-1964), MCC (1961) and Gloucestershire (1965-1968) as a sound right-handed batsman, scoring 5,464 runs (average 23.86), with a highest score of 130. He scored 4 centuries and 21 fifties, as well as taking 41 catches.

He played in 61 matches for Middlesex as an uncapped professional. He scored 2,681 runs from 105 innings at an average score of 27.63, with a top score of 130. He scored 1,119 runs at 31.08 in his debut season, a feat that he later repeated for Gloucestershire. He later played club cricket in the Bristol area of Almondsbury and for the Civil Service.

He also played in 54 Football League matches as a left back for Brentford between 1956 and 1961. He died from a heart attack in Quebec, Canada aged 56.

External links

• Cricinfo
• Cricket Archive