Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

77 Injury Strikes making a new ground as their present ground had been earmarked for building purposes. A long journey followed down to Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire for an incident packed match on 30, 31 July and 1 August which ended with the scores tied at 261 apiece. One incident occurred when C.Marshall of the AEE was bowled by Alfred Shaw who was guesting for the local XVIII. Marshall claimed not to have been ready and appealed to Umpire Rowbotham who gave him not out. On a second appeal being made by the bowler the umpire ruled it out and Marshall had to go. Another dispute arose when G.Anderson hit a ball to the boundary and the batsmen ran two which the scorers marked down having no authority from the umpires to mark down more although Anderson thought that he should have got four. When the match ended with the AEE bowled out for 132 or two runs short of a tied match, the Bishop’s Stortford captain, Mr W.F.Maitland was appealed to for the two runs and good-naturedly allowed the appeal so the match finished all-square. Amidst all these goings-on Jackson took two second innings wickets. Apart from his appearance for Nottinghamshire against Yorkshire at Trent Bridge on 2 and 3 August where he bowled four overs in the Yorkshire second innings that was the end of Jackson’s cricket in 1866. Injury together with the endless travelling up and down the country from May to September had taken its toll.