Alfred Louis Stewart Jackson (28 February 1904 in Viña del Mar

Viña del Mar

Viña del Mar , is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Its long stretches of white sandy beaches are a major attraction for national and international tourists. The city is Chile's main tourist attraction. Known as "La Ciudad Jardín" , Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located...

, Chile

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 – 23 July 1982 in Valparaíso

Valparaíso

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, Chile) was an Argentinian and Chilean cricketer

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. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper

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, he played for both Chile and Argentina, and also played first-class cricket

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 for a combined South America side and for Argentina. His elder brother John

John Jackson (Somerset cricketer)

John Alfred Stewart Jackson was a Chilean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg spin bowler, he played seven times for the Chile national cricket team against Argentina between 1922 and 1938...

 played for Somerset

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.

Playing career

Jackson played one match for Chile, a three-day match against Argentina in 1925. Opening the batting with his brother, he scored 109 in the Chile first innings, but this wasn't enough to prevent Argentina winning by 320 runs.

He eventually moved to Argentina

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 and played his first North v South match there in February 1932, a fixture he would play in nine times in total. In the 1932 English cricket season

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, he toured with a combined South American

South American cricket team in England in 1932

A cricket team from South America toured England, Scotland and Wales in the 1932 season. The team played six first-class matches and 12 other games...

 side, playing first-class matches against Oxford University

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, Leicestershire

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, Sir J Cahn's XI

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, Sussex

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 and Scotland. He topped the batting averages on the tour, and his innings of 78 against Julien Cahn's XI was his highest career first-class score.

Returning to Argentina, he played three further first-class matches, this time for Argentina in 1937/38, against Sir TEW Brinckman's XI

Sir Theodore Brinckman, 4th Baronet

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. Argentina drew the series 1-1, with Jackson captaining the Argentina team. He played his final internationals for Argentina on a tour of Chile in December 1938. Argentina won both matches, the second of which saw Jackson playing against his brother John, who was playing for Chile.