County Cricket
It was after the war that he returned to make his Championship debut in 1946 County season. He took 88 wickets at 21.90 and passed 1000 runs.
Vic Jackson was prominent allrounder, bowling off breaks at a brisk pace with a rather low arm that meant that he sometimes bowled a slow looping delivery. He played with Leicestershire until 1956, scoring 14379 runs and taking 930 wickets. His career best figures of 8 for 43 were taken against Glamorgan in his final season. With the bat he scored 21 hundreds, scoring 170 against Northamptonshire in 1948 as his best. He passed a thousand runs, eleven times and took 112 wickets in 1955 to complete the double. He took over ninety wickets on three occasions.
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