Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

23 13 in the second innings. On 18 June the team moved over to Manchester for a match against Twenty-Two of the Broughton Club whom they beat by an innings and 45 runs, with Jackson, now warming up and taking eight second innings wickets for 12 runs. The next four matches brought Jackson seventy-six wickets, beginning with fourteen for 89 in 43.2 overs against Twenty-Two of Sleaford on 25 June, a game the AEE still managed to lose by nine wickets. The first five Sleaford batsmen made ducks with four of those who batted completing a pair in the second innings. Nine of the Sleaford men made ducks in this match out of the 36 who went in to bat. The men who did get some runs, most notably one of their given men, F.Tinley, with innings of 32 and 35, did enough to win the match. If Jackson was disappointed with this result, his performance in the next match against Twenty-Two of Loughborough was truly outstanding. He bowled 57.3 overs to take eight for 52 as Loughborough scored 131, the AEE scoring 104 in reply. Jackson then took nine wickets for 11 runs in Loughborough’s second innings of 78 for eighteen before rain caused the abandonment of the match. In his next match for the AEE on 6 July against Twenty-Two of Uppingham, Jackson did even better, taking 14 for 18 in the first innings and 11 for 19 in the second innings. This gave him match figures of twenty-five wickets for 37 runs in 56.1 overs. He bowled 20 batsmen, including six in seven balls in the Uppingham second innings. There was only one double figure score in Uppingham’s two innings out of the 44 men who batted, 22 ducks being recorded in scores of 31 and 58. AEE only made 43 and 86 but still won by 43 runs. There were another 22 ducks by the batsmen of Wakefield in Jackson’s next game on 23 July, including two by Alfred Mynn, guesting for the local side, the first time that Mynn had recorded a pair since 1833, a remarkable sequence. A low- scoring match saw the AEE win by 13 runs, with Jackson recording figures of nine for 28 in 39.3 overs in the Wakefield first innings and eleven for 13 in the second in 38 overs, to clinch a win after the locals had been set no more than 47 to win. On 30 July Twenty-Two of Derbyshire were beaten by five wickets, with Jackson taking nine for 31 in 30 overs in their first innings and one for 18 in the second. George Parr hit 67 in the AEE second innings, easily the most decisive batting contribution. Moving into Lincolnshire in August the AEE faced Twenty-Two of Boston on 6 August, beating them by five wickets. Jackson shouldered another heavy stint of bowling, 86 overs in all, to take fourteen for 55 in the match. All four innings totals were in a range between 66 and 72. A comfortable win by eight wickets over Twenty-Two of Grantham on 20 August was notable for Heathfield Stephenson making 69 for AEE and Jackson bowling 73.1 overs and taking seventeen for 79, including thirteen for 37 in the second innings. Jackson’s workload was even heavier at Bradford in his next AEE match. He bowled no less than 64 overs in the Bradford first innings, taking ten Early Career, Marriage and Family