Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

42 At the Height of His Powers of the Sheffield Hallam Club, beating them by an innings and 156 runs after hitting up a score of 339 (a considerable total to make against odds), by consistent batting in front of a crowd of 4,000 which included many aristocratic patrons. Jackson’s contribution was to take five for 33 in the first innings, but was overshadowed by R.C.Tinley who took ten for 20 and all seventeen for 58. On 2, 3 and 4 August the AEE next played at a new venue, Shugborough Park, on the Earl of Lichfield’s estate, where they comfortably beat a local XXII by nine wickets. Jackson took two for 10 and three for 4 in 25.2 overs. Another new venue was Dunstable on 9 and 10 August where the AEE won by ten wickets against XXII of Bedfordshire, with Tinley taking eighteen wickets and Jackson three for 29. This was another heavy ground, more suited to Tinley’s guile than to Jackson’s pace. At Macclesfield in Cheshire, the team ran into more bad weather in a drawn match on 16 and 17 August. E.J.Bousfield scored 50 for Macclesfield XXII with Jackson taking five for 31 in 24 overs. Injury prevented him from bowling at Plymouth where the AEE beat XXII of Cornwell and Devon by nine wickets on 27, 28 and 29 August. Jackson had either sprained his ankle or his side which meant that he was unable to play in the next match. The AEE next played a match in Glasgow against XXII of the Caledonian Club which they lost by 20 runs. It was late in the season now, 20, 21 and 22 September Jackson took one for 9 in 12 overs, but Tinley had another crop of victims, taking twenty-six wickets with his lobs for 78 runs. Jackson’s only other appearance in the 1860 season was at Sheffield where he played for Nottingham in a rain-ruined match against XVI of Sheffield The All-England Eleven at Gainsborough 1860. [Newark CC]