Saurashtra batting stalwart Sheldon Jackson retires from first-class cricket after 15-year career

That helium ended his vocation with an mean of implicit 45 speaks volumes astir his consistency successful first-class cricket.

Jackson has been a multidimensional cricketer and too being a reliable batsman and an fantabulous fielder. He besides kept wickets for Saurashtra successful the limited-over competitions.

In the longer format, however, helium was not required to bash the work acknowledgment to Sagar Jogiyani’s presence.

He scored 14 and 27 successful his last 2 outings arsenic Gujarat won by an innings and 98 runs.

Jackson, who was erstwhile portion of the Kolkata Knight Riders set-up aft being spotted by erstwhile Bengal subordinate Joydeep Mukherjee, made his debut for Saurashtra successful December 2011.

After being connected the fringes of enactment for his authorities squad Saurashtra for 3 years, helium made his debut successful December 2011.

He made 4 fifties and 3 hundreds successful the 2012-13 Ranji season, including back-to-back centuries successful the quarter-final and semi-final against Karnataka and Punjab respectively, to assistance Saurashtra suffice for the last for the archetypal time.

Owing to his fantabulous tally with the bat that year, helium broke into the India A squad for the bid against West Indies A astatine home. He was besides a salient subordinate successful Saurashtra’s 2nd complaint towards a Ranji Trophy rubric successful the 2015-16 season.

Last month, Jackson had called clip connected his limited-overs vocation aft scoring 2792 runs successful 84 innings, with his highest being an unbeaten 133 during the Vijay Hazare Trophy successful 2022.

In the limited-overs game, helium struck 9 centuries and 14 half-centuries successful all.