Brian Jackson (cricketer)
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| Full name | Albert Brian Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 August 1933 Kettleshulme, Cheshire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium fast bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1963–1968 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 15 May 1963 Derbyshire v Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 21 August 1968 Derbyshire v Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 12 June 1963 Derbyshire v Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last List A | 25 May 1968 Derbyshire v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Albert Brian Jackson (born 21 August 1933) is a former English cricketer. who played for Derbyshire from 1963 to 1968 and for MCC in 1967.
Jackson was born in Kettleshulme, Cheshire, and was a mainstay of the Cheshire team in the Minor Counties Championship between 1958 and 1960. After taking 26 wickets for sixteen runs each in 1958, Jackson declined somewhat on the less favourable pitches of 1959 and 1960, but with Cheshire unable to afford any professionals, Brian Jackson was signed by Derbyshire for 1961.
He debuted for the Derbyshire Second XI in the 1961 season in an innings-victory against Nottinghamshire in Epperstone. After playing in the Second XI for two years, Brian Jackson made his first-class debut in the 1963 season against Somerset in May, though he was absent hurt in the match. He saw action in his next game, against Glamorgan, and was a regular member of the side for the rest of the season. He bowled steadily, and in one match against Pakistan Eaglets he took ten wickets for ninety runs. He received his Derbyshire cap and with his unrelated namesake Leslie Jackson retiring was viewed as a future spearhead of the Derbyshire bowling. Like Leslie, Brian Jackson was not a strong batsman: he never reached 30 in a first-class innings and his runs exceeded his wickets by no more than 190 for his whole career.
In the 1964 season, with 79 Championship wickets Brian Jackson was by far the best bowler in the team and critics were impressed by his workrate although his average of 23.59 suggested Derbyshire was losing its traditional strength in pace bowling. However, the 1965 season saw Brian Jackson advance remarkably to form with Harold Rhodes an immensely powerful opening attack: the two bowlers were first and second in the national averages. Jackson’s superb outswinger and extremely accurate length made him an extremely formidable opponent on the damp pitches of that summer, and he was never mastered even on the better pitches.
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