Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

78 Chapter Eleven Last Full Season Recovered from injury Jackson played in 22 matches for the AEE against odds in 1867. He batted 33 times with 8 not out innings and scored 187 runs at an average of 7.48. He took 80 wickets and 27 catches. The matches began at the Trinity College ground at Cambridge on 6 May where the AEE played a game against XVI of Trinity College and won by five wickets. John Smith scored 83 and Carpenter 53 in the AEE total of 220. The College were bowled out for 99 with Tarrant taking nine wickets and J.C.Shaw taking five. The College recovered to make 284 in their second innings with W.S.O.Warner hitting 108, a rare hundred against an AEE attack. Jackson took one for 23 in 28 overs. Set to score 164 to win the AEE were in trouble with five batsmen dismissed cheaply before Carpenter with 55* and Parr 30* steered them home. There were 77 extras in the match, 59 of them in the AEE innings including 42 byes. Long-stop must have been kept busy! The AEE paid a rare visit to Ireland for a match at Belfast on 13 May against XXII of Northern Ireland supported by Luke Greenwood and Roger Iddison. In a low-scoring game the Irish team won by eight wickets although twelve of their batsmen including the last seven in the order registered ducks. On 23 May the AEE began a match against the UAEE at Old Trafford for the benefit of the Cricketers’ Fund which ended in an AEE victory and which turned out to be Jackson’s final first-class match. He had match figures of seven for 95. Six of these came at a cost of 50 runs in the second innings when he and Alfred Shaw bowled unchanged for 57.1 overs. Haygarth commented that all the players were from the North and went on to say that Lord’s and the Oval were ‘now deserted by the Northern Men. It ‘paid’ more to confine their efforts to the North.’ The next AEE match in which Jackson appeared, but took no wickets, was played against XXII of Heckmondwicke who beat the Eleven by 33 runs. Luke Greenwood, once again a given man player, took 13 wickets. Carpenter hit 61 for the AEE with Jackson unbeaten on 33. After leading by 44 runs on the first innings the AEE needed only 83 to win but were bowled out for 50 with only E.Stephenson reaching double figures. On 30 May the AEE played XXII of Bootle winning by 224 runs. The Bootle batting folded completely for 39 and 45 with their second innings lasting only 105 minutes. Luke Greenwood, for once turning out for the AEE, took 20 wickets and Carpenter scored 73. The Bootle batsmen made 17 ducks and only one man reached double figures. Once again Jackson didn’t bowl. The next match should have started at Knaresborough on 3 June but bad