jarman retired from cricket at the end of the 1968–69 series against the touring west indies, having played nineteen tests, scoring 400 runs at 14.81 and taking fifty catches and four stumpings. in first-class cricket, he scored 5615 runs at 22.73 and took 431 catches and 129 stumpings in 191 matches, a wicket-keeping record bettered at the time among australians only by grout and bert oldfield.