Paul William Jarvis (born 29 June 1965) is a former English

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er, who played in nine

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and sixteen

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for

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from 1988 to 1993. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, remarked, "Jarvis always had much potential as a well-coordinated pace bowler who skiddied the ball through with considerable venom". He retired from the game in 2000, and worked in a firm which helps current players find agent representation. In 2009, he was appointed Director of Cricket at

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in Suffolk. He coached the England Ladies cricket team in 2011. Jarvis now owns his own Boutique hotel and coffee shop in Wiltshire.

Domestic career

A skiddy right arm quick bowler, and tail end right-handed batsman, he made his

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debut at the age of 16 years and 75 days, the then youngest player to ever represent his county, and was tipped for Test stardom but he failed to establish himself as a permanent member of the England team. He played for Yorkshire from 1981 to 1993, winning his first team

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in 1986, after taking 11 for 92 against

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. He was the youngest player to take a

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in the Sunday League in 1982 and in the

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in 1985, but as Yorkshire tired of his constant injury problems, he was released to play for

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from 1994 to 1998. He had 51 victims in 1994 in his first season there, winning his second county cap, but was again plagued by injury thereafter. His experiences at

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from 1999 to 2002 were similar, but he could still be a potent force in one day cricket on his day, as he proved by taking 5 for 55 in the 1999

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final against

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. He played for

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in New Zealand in the 1996/97 season, and spent several winters playing club cricket variously in Australia,

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and South Africa. In 215

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he took 654 wickets, with a best of 7–55, at an average of 28.92, and scored 3,373 runs at 16.78, with a best score of 80 for Yorkshire against

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in 1992. He played in four youth Test matches for England in 1982 and 1983. His career was hampered by a succession of injuries to his slender 5' 10" frame, but his whippy athletic bowling won him 81 wickets in 1987, and his match winning 4 for 43 in the final of the

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, helped win him selection on England's winter tour of Pakistan, New Zealand and Australia.

International career

His Test debut came in

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against

, but although he took six wickets in his first two matches on sluggish pitches, he was dropped for the final test. He returned against the strong

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team in the home series of 1988, recording his Test best figures with both ball and bat, with 4 for 107 and scoring 29 not out, at

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. A back injury forced him out of the series, and he was out of Test cricket for a year before returning against

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for two tests in the calamitous

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. After only one wicket (and that to a "drag on" (Geoff Marsh was the batsman)) at

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, he was dropped once more and chose to go on the 1989/90

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of South Africa, which saw him banned for three years from the England Test team. When asked why he went on the tour, Jarvis replied, "to pay off my mortgage in one go". The rebel ban was lifted after South Africa's return to Test cricket, and Jarvis was chosen to tour India and Sri Lanka in 1992–93. He bowled with good pace, and took four wickets in two Tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the

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award for taking 5 for 35 against

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. He was dropped for the final Test against India but returned to take 3 for 76 against Sri Lanka in

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, but never played Test cricket again. While Jarvis's decision to tour South Africa (announced on the final day of the Old Trafford test against Australia in 1989) was widely seen at the time as a disaster for English fast bowling strength, Jarvis's test career up to that point indicated that he was by no means certain of a place in the team – more through selectorial whim than his own performance. His fledgling Test Career had come up against some strong opposition (West Indies and Australia) and he did not have chance to "fill his boots" (as others did) against weaker opposition.

References

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