I've had the soft label before - Kyle Jarvis
Zimbabwe bowler Kyle Jarvis talks to Cricket365 's Tristan Holme about his dad Malcolm (who played in Zimbabwe's debut Test), his injury ordeal and the effect Tamim Iqbal's comments on the penultimate day of the Harare Test had on his team.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Zimbabwe bowler Kyle Jarvis talks to Cricket365's Tristan Holme about his dad Malcolm (who played in Zimbabwe's debut Test), his injury ordeal and the effect Tamim Iqbal's comments on the penultimate day of the Harare Test had on his team.
Kyle Jarvis was just three-years-old at the time so he was too young to remember watching his father play in Zimbabwe's first Test, but that doesn't mean he hasn't heard all about it. "Mostly he's always telling me about how he would have had Zimbabwe's first Test wicket but for a dropped catch. And then he'll chirp that one day maybe I'll be as quick as he was."
"... I was struggling to bowl and everyone just said, 'Ah you're being soft. Come on, just bowl through it'. But it was in fact a stress fracture." The mental toughness required to come back from the injury has stood him in good stead ... "I spent a lot of time lying down watching TV, which was what I had to do. It was basically seven months with the feet up, it was pretty terrible to just watch your mates play on TV."
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Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo