John Bernard Russell (2 October 1883 – 17 August 1965) was an English cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match for Warwickshire in 1920, but was a regular Minor Counties player for Staffordshire for 20 years.
Russell was a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.
His single first-class match was the Warwickshire game against Cambridge University in which both teams rested prominent players; Warwickshire's regular wicketkeeper, Tiger Smith, played in the game but Russell kept wicket, taking one catch and making one stumping.
[2] He did not play in senior cricket again, but was regularly both captain and wicketkeeper in the Staffordshire side of the 1920s, which also included the now-aged but still effective Sydney Barnes.
He retired after the 1927 season in which he led the team to the Minor Counties Cricket Championship.