Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

ACS PUBLICATIONS Although born in Bungay, Suffolk, John Jackson was brought up in Wellow, Nottinghamshire. Noticed at an early age by William Clarke, the young Jackson soon became an integral part of the Nottinghamshire and All England Elevens. Bowling fast round-arm, Jackson, whose pace was described as ‘fearful’, took wickets by the dozen all over the country as well as on tours to North America in 1859 and Australia and New Zealand in 1863/64. Injury brought his career to a gradual close during the late 1860s and, having no qualifications of any kind, he had nothing to fall back on after his playing days had finished. The once great fast bowler ended his days in a Liverpool workhouse in 1901. Gerald Hudd charts the life of this great bowler who in a later era would undoubtedly have had a highly successful career in Test cricket and who might have had a more dignified old age. £14.00 LIVES IN CRICKET John Jackson The Nottinghamshire Foghorn GERALD HUDD