Scotland international Jack Jarvis is spending the winter in Brisbane, Australia, continuing his cricket development with Redlands Tigers.
The 20-year-old all-rounder will be detailing his experiences down under throughout the winter on cricketscotland.com:
It was good to be able to spend the festive period with my mum and my auntie, they were here until the 28th so I got to spend Christmas with them, down at my mum’s friends place with them and their dog Rory, which was nice.
It was a bit different heading to the beach on Christmas morning before having our lunch, but then in the evening there was a massive storm, which was pretty cool when you’re sat inside, but I imagine not very fun if you’re caught out in it!
We did a lot of the touristy things whilst my mum and auntie were in town, we travelled around quite a bit and saw some of the beaches, some of the waterfalls, and went into the city around the markets.
Over New Year I went down to Melbourne and stayed with Tom Foulds who was the Grange captain last year and has now moved out to Australia, so it was nice to catch up with him.
Melbourne’s a very different city to Brisbane, we went to a Big Bash game at the MCG which was cool, and I ended up doing some training with Tom as well whilst I was down in Melbourne, so nothing really changes there!
The Big Bash get the family side of it spot on, as a product it really seems to be a great event for families to head down to, and we’ve enjoyed it with Redlands as well, there’s been a really good atmosphere.
Jimmy Peirson, Sam Heazlett and James Bazley have all been in the Big Bash from Redlands, so it’s been good to see those guys involved; James in particular has been involved quite a lot with the Adelaide Strikers.
We got back into our cricket this weekend playing over the Saturday and Sunday against South Brisbane, we had a good win and I took four wickets so that was really pleasing.
It was a bit more normal to play the two days back-to-back, it’s different to what we’ve been doing for the past three months, and it was nice to prepare knowing that I will be bowling this week, more similarly to how it would be back home.
This week we start against Toombul at home, and that’s back to how it was before Christmas, playing over two weekends.
George Garrett, who plays for Kent, has joined us now, and he played out here last year. He seems a really nice guy, and I headed down to the beach this week to spend some time with him. He’s a really good player as well, he bowled nicely this weekend and hopefully he’ll help push us towards the top four which is our aim.
The draw for the World Cup is really exciting when you see who we get to go up against, these are the teams you watch when you’re growing up.
I was there at Grange in 2018 when we beat England, and the opportunity to be involved in those games really motivates you to want to be involved this time around and hopefully we can do something pretty special.
World Cup’s are something you dream of playing in, so to hopefully get that opportunity with this draw, it’s what you want to be involved in, and it’s what you put all that work in for.
