Former England pacer Robin Jackman, who born in India, has died at the age of 75.
Jackman created his Test debut in 1981 at the age of 35 and featured in 4 matches for England in the longest format of the game choosing 14 wickets. He also played in 15 ODIs involving 1974 and 1983.
“We are saddened to learn about the death of legendary commentator and former England bowler Robin Jackman, who has passed away aged 75,” the International Cricket Council (ICC) stated in a Tweet.
Jackman played for Surrey in the county cricket and picked 1,402 wickets in a 1st-class profession which stretched from 1966 to 1982 – with a mixture of heart, persistence, nous, and sheer bloody-mindedness.
While some felt he would struggle to make it at the county level in his early days, Jackman fought ferociously to extract the absolute maximum from his talent, spending winters playing in South Africa.
Brought onto the employees in 1964, the 1st-class debut of Jackman came two years later and he became a normal fixture in the side two years later with a county cap coming in 1970.
According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, he was arguably most well-known for the match that he did not play, at Guyana on England’s tour of the West Indies in 1980-81, when his connections to Apartheid South Africa – by means of his wife Yvonne, and by means of his longstanding cricketing association with the nation – led to the cancellation of the second Test of the series.
Eventually, the other Caribbean governments decided the cricket would continue and Jackman lastly earned that cherished England cap in Barbados, removing Gordon Greenidge to a catch in the slips for his 1st wicket on the way to collecting 3-65.
Going forward, Jackman was to turn out to be familiar to a far wider audience when he moved into broadcasting. For quite a few, he was the voice of cricket through the transformative years in which he moved back into the international arena right after becoming in isolation through the apartheid period.
His death comes right after England legend and his Surrey teammate John Edrich passed away at the age of 83 on Wednesday.