Paul Jackson (Irish cricketer)

Paul Barry Jackson (born 9 December 1959) is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played 87 matches for the Ireland cricket team between 1981 and 1994 including eleven first-class matches against Scotland and eleven List A matches.

Playing career

Born 9 December 1959 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jackson made his debut for Ireland in June 1981 against Canada. The following month, he played against Middlesex and made his List A debut against Gloucestershire in the NatWest Trophy and his first-class debut against Scotland. He played three times in August that year, against the MCC at Lord's, Wales and Surrey.

He played four times in 1982, starting with two matches against India in Belfast, followed by matches against Scotland and Warwickshire. He bowled for the first time in 1983, against the MCC in August, the final game of a season that saw him play against Worcestershire, Sussex, Scotland, Gloucestershire and Wales.

The MCC were his first opponents the following year, 1984, followed by matches against the West Indies, Surrey, Wales and Scotland. He played four times for Ireland in 1985 before going on a tour to Zimbabwe in January 1986 on which he took his only wicket for Ireland, against Mashonaland Country Districts. He played several matches at home that year, twice each against India and Yorkshire followed by games against Wales, Leicestershire, the MCC and Scotland.

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Paul Jackson (rugby league)

Paul Jackson (born 29 September 1978 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English-born Scottish professional rugby league footballer. He plays at prop forward for Whitehaven, and has previously also played for Huddersfield, Wakefield Trinity and Castleford. Jackson played for Huddersfield in the 2006 Challenge Cup final as a prop forward against St Helens RFC but the Giants lost 12-42. He was named in the Scotland training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.

He was named in the Scotland squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.

Jackson rejoined Castleford for the 2010 season. He previously played for the club in 2003 and 2004.

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Paul Jackson (game producer)

Paul Stafford Jackson, OBE (born 1962) is a British video game producer and publisher.

In 1993, Jackson established the British office of Electronic Arts. At EA UK, he was involved in brand-building for the The Sims series of games. Whilst at EA, he was approached by Kuju Entertainment seeking interest in publishing Rail Simulator, a successor to Microsoft Train Simulator which Microsoft Games had declined to publish.

On 1 August 2006, Jackson took over from Roger Bennett as director-general of the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), the British video game industry trade group, having served on the ELSPA board for twelve years since 1992, with three years as chairman.

In 2008, after leaving ELSPA, Jackson returned to the Rail Simulator franchise, arranging to buy the rights to the project, and becoming CEO of the resulting development company, RailSimulator.com Ltd. The company released RailWorks, the successor to Rail Simulator, in 2009. Since December 2013, the company has been known as Dovetail Games.