India, April 5 -- Former England wicketkeeper batsman Jack Russell is a man of many shades. Turns out he has also been a military medals collector all these years, and now he has decided to put them on the auction table.

Russell played 54 Test matches and 40 ODIs from 1987 to 1998. He invariably wore a bucket-style floppy sunhat, and it gave him a very distinctive appearance. Russell scored more than 2,300 runs in international cricket, including two centuries in Test cricket. During his long cricket career, he travelled all over the world and besides scoring those runs and taking those catches or effecting those stumpings, he was also collecting military medals. Today, he has 135 of them at his disposal. At the auction, they are expecte...