Arthur Harwood "Affie" Jarvis (19 October 1860 – 15 November 1933) was an

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wicket-keeper In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the ...

who played for

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and

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

. His

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debut was against England at the

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on 15 January 1885 and his last Test was also against England at the same ground on 1 March 1895. Jarvis was unlucky in that his time clashed with that of

Jack Blackham John McCarthy Blackham (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1932) was a Test cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. A specialist wicket-keeper, Blackham played in the first Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877 and the ...

, who held down the wicket-keeping spot in the Australian Test team that Jarvis would probably otherwise have had. Nonetheless, Jarvis had a long and successful career as the wicket-keeper for South Australia, played 11 Tests for

, and toured

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with the Australians in 1880, 1886, 1888 and 1893. When Blackham was injured and unable to play during the tour of New Zealand in 1886–87, Jarvis kept wicket. The New Zealand cricket historian Tom Reese wrote in 1927 that his keeping was "the chief feature of the tour ... absolutely brilliant throughout, and it is generally considered that the best wicket-keeping ever seen in New Zealand was displayed by Jarvis on this tour". Jarvis appeared in South Australia's first first-class match in 1877-78 when he was 17, and their first

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match in 1892-93. His last first-class match was in 1900-01 when he was 40.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 275. His South Australian teammate

George Giffen George Giffen (27 March 1859 – 29 November 1927) was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. An all-rounder who batted in the middle order and often opened the bowling with medium-paced off-spin, Giffen captained Australia ...

praised Jarvis's ability as a wicket-keeper, pointing out that after years of keeping in the flimsy gloves of the era, Jarvis's hands had "not a single unsound finger", unlike many wicket-keepers then and now. Jarvis died in hospital in Adelaide after a long illness, aged 73.

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