The fiery English pacer, Jofra Archer will be missing the next month’s two-Test series at home against New Zealand due to an elbow injury, it was announced Sunday. Recently, he returned to competitive cricket while playing for Sussex in a drawn County Championship match against Kent at Hove this week but bowled only five overs in the visitors’ second innings, as he was finding it difficult to bowl after being troubled by a long-standing injury in his bowling arm.
An England and Wales Cricket Board has now confirmed that Archer has been ruled out of the series against the Black Caps said he was “suffering from pain in his right elbow when bowling”.
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ECB’s statement regarding the same read: “The England and Sussex medical teams will now seek guidance, and Archer will see a medical consultant later this week to determine the next course of action on the management of his elbow.”
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Jofra Archer was recovering well from his elbow injury, as he bowled brilliantly in his comeback game against Kent, taking 2-29 in 13 overs. But Sussex coach Ian Salisbury confirmed on Saturday evening that he would not bowl again in the four-day match.
Elaborating the same, Sussex skipper, Ben Brown said, “He’s a champion cricketer, so talented and so gifted, but at the moment he cannot do what he wants to do — he cannot do his skill. Jofra did the right thing playing in the second XI game the previous week and we all want him to be fully fit and firing for England and for the Ashes and things like that. He needed to play in this match to prove his fitness, but it just hasn’t worked out this week.”
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England has a pretty cricketing schedule in 2021, particularly for multi-format players such as Archer, with the New Zealand games followed by a five-Test series against India, ahead of the T20 World Cup in India and the Ashes in Australia.
