Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

75 replied with 195. With Warren making 72 in their second innings of 179, Cambridgeshire set Nottinghamshire 202 to win. They ended the match on 99 for six with W.Oscroft 55*. Jackson had a rare wicketless match, bowling 31 overs for 75 runs. On 2 and 3 August Yorkshire were the visitors at Trent Bridge and were defeated by nine wickets, despite Jackson’s serious injury which allowed him to bowl only 4 overs in the match for 7 runs. J.C.Shaw with six for 36 in Yorkshire’s first innings of 78, and G.Wootton with five for 47 in their second innings of 83, stepped into the breach for Nottinghamshire and won the match. Jackson played in 15 matches for the AEE, batting 25 times with 5 not out innings and scoring 202 runs at an average of 10.10. He took 57 wickets and held 19 catches. The first game was at the Trinity College ground at Cambridge on 14, 15 and 16 May where an XVIII of Trinity College beat the AEE by fourteen wickets. Jackson took one for 30 in 36 overs. The College owed much to the Lyttleton brothers. Hon.C.G.Lyttleton made 90 and Hon.G.S.Lyttleton made 55 to thwart a fine AEE attack of J.C.Shaw, Tinley, Freeman and Jackson. Richard Daft scored 55 and 41* for the AEE but had little support. Moving on to Oxford the Eleven beat XIV Graduates of the University by three wickets on 17, 18 and 19 May. Haygarth noted some slow scoring in this game with AEE taking five hours to score their first innings of 246. He pointed out that Oxford took only three hours to make 245 in their second innings, but they did have three more fielders. Jackson bowled seven overs for 9 runs but had a good double with the bat, scoring 24* and 11*. On 24 May the AEE played a match against XXII of West of Scotland at the Hamilton Crescent Ground in Glasgow. West of Scotland won by 13 wickets with Luke Greenwood acting as a given man. Jackson took five wickets in what was a low-scoring match. With the game ending early a single-wicket match took place between Smith, Oscroft and Jackson of the AEE and eight West of Scotland players. The West made 42 with Jackson taking four wickets and Smith had made 14 for the AEE when play was abandoned. The next match was at Ossett on 28 May where Greenwood again acted as a given man and took nine for 116 in the AEE innings of 110 and 146. Ossett made 192 but needing only 65 to win collapsed to 38 all out. Tinley took 12 for 25 and Jackson seven for 4 in 18 overs. E.Stephenson stumped ten batsmen, nine of them off Tinley. The AEE won by 27 runs. At Hyde Park in Sheffield on 4 and 5 June the AEE proved much too strong for XVIII Colts of Nottingham and Sheffield, beating them by an innings and 8 runs. The Colts were captained by W.G.Grace from Gloucestershire who made 36 in their second innings of 91. Jackson took four wickets in the match, J.C.Shaw took fourteen and G.Atkinson thirteen. Jackson did not bowl in the next match at Heckmondwike. He next appeared for the team at the Northern Ground in Liverpool on Injury Strikes