Jofra Archer’s rehabilitation from long-term injury will step up a notch next month when he joins up with the England Lions squad for their training camp in the UAE.
The pace bowler has not played any form of cricket since July 2021 and missed the English summer with a stress fracture of his lower back, having also suffered with a long-term elbow injury.
Archer’s protracted will travel for training alongside fellow bowlers Saqib Mahmood and Brydon Carse, who are also working back from injury, and five members of the Test squad who are not involved in the T20 World Cup – James Anderson, Jamie Overton, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach and Will Jacks.
The teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has been called up as part of the 15-man squad that will travel to the UAE on 6 November, before taking on Ben Stokes’s senior England side in a three-day match that serves as a warm-up for the Test series in Pakistan.