Peter Hayter visits the Cotswolds to meet one of English cricket’s most heroic and eccentric figures

In the picture: Jack Russell parades a number of paintings which are on display at his art gallery
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At first sight the image that confronts you when you walk into Jack Russell’s gallery in the quintessentially southern Cotswold market town of Chipping Sodbury is quite unnerving.
There, slightly larger than life, is Dickie Bird giving you the finger. Many are they that have been given out by English cricket’s best loved and most eccentric umpire. Q...