Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

73 Still at the Top rain on the first day that, despite good weather on the second and third days, the game could not be finished. In contrast with the previous AEE match Jackson took but one wicket. His fortunes changed in the next AEE match on 31 August which was against XXII of Bootle. This ended in a 47 run victory, Jackson having taken nine wickets in the first Bootle innings. The next match took the team to Carlisle where the local XXII was defeated by 8 wickets on 4, 5 and 6 August. Jackson was amongst the wickets again, this time dismissing 13 batsmen. This match was followed by a single-wicket match between four of the AEE team and Ten of Carlisle which ended in a tie. Jackson scored four of the AEE total of 9 and took two wickets. Moving on to Harrogate on 7 September the AEE beat XXII of Harrogate. Jackson took 12 wickets in the match. He did not bowl in his next AEE appearance on 18, 19 and 20 September against XXII of Bishop Auckland, but in scoring 22 did make the second-highest individual score for the AEE and the team won by an innings and one run with Tarrant doing the hat trick. At Peterborough on 21 September Jackson made 25 and took eight wickets as the locals were defeated by 18 runs. The AEE’s last match ended in a defeat by XVIII Gentlemen of the North at the Hyde Park Ground at Sheffield by 30 runs. Jackson took eight wickets. The Gentlemen of the North scored 129 and it then took the AEE openers 32 balls to score the first run and the team was dismissed for 51. Eventually the AEE were set 141 to win. Whilst Hayward with 46 and Carpenter (20) were together they had a very good chance but after these two were separated a collapse followed and the final score was only 110. On Easter Monday Jackson played in the annual Colts match at Trent Bridge, bowling 27 overs and taking three for 27 in a drawn match. On 14 August he played for Nottinghamshire against XIV Free Foresters at Trent Bridge. Only eleven of the Free Foresters batted in their first innings and twelve in the second innings, but all fourteen fielded and they won by 56 runs with Jackson failing to take a wicket. Finally he played as a ‘given’ man for XXII of Leeds against the United All-England Eleven at the Holbeck Recreation Ground, Leeds on 11, 12 and 13 September. He bowled John Thewlis and Alfred Shaw, scored 4 and 18 and took a catch.