Robin David Jackman was an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1974 and 1983. During a first-class career lasting from 1966 to 1982, he took 1,402 wickets. Jackman initially had ambitions to become an actor until his uncle, the comedy actor Patrick Cargill, dissuaded him.
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Robin David Jackman was an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1974 and 1983. During a first-class career lasting from 1966 to 1982, he took 1,402 wickets. He was a member of the Surrey side that won the County Championship in 1971, and also played for Western Province in South Africa in 1971–72, and for Rhodesia between 1972–73 and 1979–80. Jackman initially had ambitions to become an actor until his uncle, the comedy actor Patrick Cargill, dissuaded Jackman from pursuing the career due to its low success rate. His father pulled him out of school at the age of 17, for he saw a future for his son as a professional cricketers. He made his first- class debut in 1966 against Cambridge University and picked up three wickets in the first over of the second innings.
He became a regular fixture in the Surrey first team during the 1968 season and was awarded a county cap in 1970. His performances provoked regular calls for his inclusion in the England Test team, given that he was way ahead of any other seamer in English cricket and was thoroughly deserving of being one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year in the following spring’s Almanack. In 1980, in 1980, it seemed likely that he might get a Test call-up as he finished the season with 121 wickets, aided by the much improved pitches at The Oval and having a very ferocious new ball partner in Sylvester Clarke. But the England selectors, choosing a squad to tour West Indies in the winter of 198081, showed reluctance to pick a seamer who was by now 35 years old.
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