Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

37 curtailed by rain. The England players were given a grand banquet in the Girard Guard House, Philadelphia and on the following day the team had time to visit the Niagara Falls. At Hamilton the team beat a local XXII by ten wickets. Jackson had a relatively quiet game, bowling only 27 overs, which perhaps explains why he was allowed to open in England’s second innings, with just 41 needed to win. He finished the match 16 not out. The side’s last match saw them play a combined USA/Canada XXII at Rochester and beat them by an innings and 68 runs. Jackson took nine wickets for 38 in this match in 37.2 overs. The match was played in desperately cold weather with the fielders muffled up in gloves and greatcoats. Sounds like the average English April. Altogether in these tour matches Jackson took 52 wickets and bowled 237.3 overs, a typical workload for this big-hearted bowler. On Saturday 29 October the team set sail for Liverpool on the mail screw steamer North Briton and endured another rough crossing before they finally berthed in Liverpool on 11 November. They had covered, in all, about 7,500 miles and made history. Haygarth recorded that ‘each man cleared about £90, free of all expenses, besides presents’ . With George Parr’s Team in the USA and Canada 1859