![]() ![]() England cannot afford to go into a Test with a bowler’s health in question, especially with Ben Stokes handicapped by his knee injury. We should have taken him at face value then and England would gladly grab that if offered now.īut he would have to prove his fitness in a four day game for Sussex first, bowling two or three spells in a day, because it is backing up the overs that proves a bowler’s fitness, and then doing it again in the second innings. ![]() It was always optimistic to believe he would be fit for much of the Ashes and Archer himself said in March he would be happy to play in just one game. This is bowling four overs in T20, and not in one go either, and with several days rest in between as well. Archer is returning from the IPL so England can keep a closer eye on him because it turns out “pushing through the discomfort whilst recently playing, hoping it will settle, has proven challenging.” Such is the rarity of pace in English cricket that every Jofra Archer injury update is projected with deeper meaning and inevitably the latest is cast in an Ashes light. ![]()
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