Tony Robert Jakobson (born 17 December 1937) is an English former first-class cricketer.

Jakobson was born at Marylebone in December 1937. He was educated at Charterhouse School, before going up to University College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, making his debut against the Free Foresters at Oxford in 1960. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1961, making a total of fourteen appearances. Playing primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, he took a total of 37 wickets in his fourteen first-class matches at an average of 32.00 and best figures of 5 for 61, which represented his only five wicket haul. As a batsman, he scored 112 runs with a high score of 20.

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Jakobson later became a horse racing tipster at Newmarket, where he wrote the Pin Money column in the Newmarket Journal for nearly fifty years, before stepping down in May 2020.

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1937 births

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Cricketers from Marylebone

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English cricketers

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