[2][3] Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, remarked, "Jarvis always had much potential as a well-coordinated pace bowler who skiddied the ball through with considerable venom".
A skiddy right arm quick bowler, and tail end right-handed batsman, he made his Yorkshire debut at the age of 16 years and 75 days, the then youngest player to ever represent his county,[1] and was tipped for Test stardom but he failed to establish himself as a permanent member of the England team.
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.
After only one wicket (and that to a "drag on" (Geoff Marsh was the batsman)) at Edgbaston, 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.
[5] 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.