Somerset Sabres include Paul Jarvis, in place Graham Rose who is being rested, in their line this afternoon for their NUL Division One clash against Yorkshire Phoenix at Scarborough.

Thirty seven year old Jarvis retired from the first class game at the end of the 2000 season to allow him to concentrate on his career outside of cricket, but he has remained living in Bath, and plays cricket professionally for a club side in South Wales.

Kevin Shine told me: "When we knew that we had a bowling problem for Sunday we made contact with `Jarv', who was delighted to come out of retirement to help us out. He has kept himself pretty fit playing one day cricket in South Wales, and is still a quality cricketer."

The coach continued: "The weather is expected to be good here so they are anticipating a large crowd this afternoon. Scarborough can be a pretty daunting place to play in front of a big crowd but `Jarv' is a fantastic competitor, and a great performer, so he will just get on and do the job for us."

In his twenty seasons in first class cricket Paul Jarvis had an impressive record in one day cricket. He played in 16 one day internationals and took 24 wickets at a cost of 28 runs each.

In the one day league he played in 163 matches, and took 231 wickets at an average of 23.15. In the two seasons that he played for Somerset Paul Jarvis played in 22 matches, and took 30 wickets at an average of 31.66.

His last match for the Sabres was against Leicestershire at Grace Road in September 2000. Earlier that year he played against Yorkshire at Scarborough, where he helped the Sabres to a two wicket victory over his former county by taking 3 for 23.

All Somerset fans will be hoping that ` Jarv' can help the Sabres to another victory this afternoon.

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