Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

10 John Jackson - Cricketer the second ’ad me on the knee, the third was in me eye and the fourth bowled me out. Jackson could be a real destroyer against the local Twenty-Twos who comprised themain opposition to the All-England Eleven. His performances will be dealt with in detail later in this book, but just a few of the more outstanding ones can be listed as a ‘taster’: 1857 25 for 37 runs v Twenty-Two of Uppingham, including six wickets in seven balls. 1857 20 for 30 runs v Twenty of Shropshire at Aston Hall. 1858 16 for 62 runs v Sixteen of Oxford University. 1858 24 for 61 runs v Twenty-Two of Monmouthshire. 1859 10 for 1 run v Twenty-Two of Cornwall at Redruth. 1861 26 for 44 runs v Twenty-Two of Derbyshire at Chesterfield. 1862 17 for 63 runs v Sixteen of Oxford University. Many of his victims were probably taken before the nervous batsman had arrived at the crease. There is a famous story of the batsman who gave himself out rather than face another of the bowler’s thunderbolts, even though the umpire had not given him out and the bowler had not The Punch cartoon.