OBITUARY: Robin Jackman & Gordon Forbes — the spirit of the game
Cricket commentator Robin Jackman and tennis player Gordon Forbes both mastered the art of sharing their sports’ inner workings with their audience. The sporting world is the emptier for their loss
14 January 2021 - 05:00
Last April, as we were all beginning to adjust to the hard lockdown, I had occasion to speak to former SuperSport cricket commentator Robin Jackman, who died in Cape Town on Christmas Day.
I was writing a feature for an English cricket magazine on the 1980 English county season, in which Jackman had taken an incredible 125 wickets for Surrey, and I wanted to press him on a few things...
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