The fiery English fast bowler, Jofra Archer announced his made a comeback to competitive cricket with two brilliant wickets for Sussex during a match against Kent in their ongoing County Championship fixture. He has been missing a lot of competitive cricket after suffering an injury on his right hand, and also had to skip IPL 2021. For his first dismissal on Day 1 on Thursday, the fiery fast bowler got the wicket of Daniel Bell-Drummond back to the pavilion.
The Kent skipper edged the ball to second slip during Archer’s third over of the innings. In his fourth over, Jofra Archer managed to get the wicket of his English teammate, Zak Crawley, who edged a snorter to the wicketkeeper. Sussex shared a video of Archer’s dismissal of Crawley on Twitter, and captioned it as, “”That’s a SNORTER!” Two wickets already for @JofraArcher!”
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Here are the videos of the dismissals:
🔥 @JofraArcher with his first wicket back in the #LVCountyChamp!
How many more can he get? Find out here: https://t.co/Oo1QJGECdp pic.twitter.com/ANY2zfgn5n
— LV= Insurance County Championship (@CountyChamp) May 13, 2021
An early breakthrough ⚡️
Right on the money, @JofraArcher! 🤑 pic.twitter.com/KjK9D9AGCJ
— Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) May 14, 2021
"That's a SNORTER!" 🎙️🔥
Two wickets already for @JofraArcher! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/HbaAthQv6h
— Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) May 13, 2021
Jofra Archer is genuinely terrifying.@JofraArcher | @SussexCCC pic.twitter.com/toFMmb6PNG
— Cricket Mate. (@CricketMate_) May 13, 2021
Jofra Archer was sent back to the United Kingdom midway through England’s tour of India this year, after his injury worsened.
The fiery pacer had suffered a cut to his hand while cleaning at his home in January. Despite the injury, he was featured in a couple of Tests and five T20Is against India, before flying back to the UK, where his progress has been monitored by the medical team of Sussex since then.
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The pacer’s brilliant return will be good news for the ECB, with England scheduled to lock horns with New Zealand in a two-match Test series later this year, and also India in a five-match bilateral series. The T20 World Cup is also scheduled to be taking place later this year in India, and Archer will be a key part of England’s bowling department.
