Paul Jarvis
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| Paul Jarvis | ||||
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 9 | 16 | ||
| Runs scored | 132 | 31 | ||
| Batting average | 10.15 | 5.16 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- | ||
| Top score | 29* | 16* | ||
| Balls bowled | 1912 | 879 | ||
| Wickets | 21 | 24 | ||
| Bowling average | 45.95 | 28.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 4/107 | 5/35 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 2/- | 1/- | ||
Paul William Jarvis (born June 29, 1965, Redcar, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer who played in 9 Tests and 16 ODIs from 1988 to 1993.
A skiddy right arm quick bowler and tail end right handed batsman he made his Yorkshire debut at the precociously young age of 16 two months, their youngest ever play, and was tipped for test stardom but he failed to establish himself as a permanent member of the England team. He played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1981 to 1993, winning his first team cap in 1986 after taking 11 for 92 against Middlesex. He was the youngest player to take a hat trick in the Sunday League in 1982 and in the County Championship in 1985, but as Yorkshire tired of his constant injury problems he was released to play for Sussex 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 Somerset 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 NatWest Final against Gloucestershire. He played for Wellington in New Zealand in the 1996/97 season and spent several winters playing club cricket in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In 215 first class matches he took 654 wickets, with a best of 7-55, at an average of 28.92 and scored 3373 runs at 16.78 with a best score of 80 for Yorkshire against Northants in 1992. He played in 4 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 Benson and Hedges Cup helped win him selection on England's winter tour of Pakistan, New Zealand and Australia.
His test debut came in Christchurch against New Zealand but though he too 6 wickets in his first two matches on sluggish pitches he was dropped for the final test. He returned against the strong West Indies team in the home series of 1988, recording his test best figures with both ball and bat, with 4 for 107 and 29*, at Lord's. A back injury forced him out of the series and he was out of test cricket for a year before returning against Australia for two tests in the calamitous 1989 Ashes. After going wicketless at Edgebaston he was dropped once more and chose to go on the 1989/90 rebel tour of South Africa, which saw him banned for three years from the England test team.
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 4 wickets in two tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the man of the match award for taking 5 for 35 against India in Bangalore. He was once again a victim of selectoral whimsy when he was dropped for the final test against India for the equally mercurial Phil Defreitas who failed to take a wicket on the tour. He returned to take 3 for 76 against Sri Lanka in Columbo but never played test cricket again.
He retired from the game in 2000 and now works in a firm which helps current players find agent representation.
