Jofra Archer out of Ashes after recurrence of elbow stress fracture
Jofra Archer is to miss a second successive summer, and a second successive Ashes series, after scans revealed a recurrence of a stress fracture to his right elbow. The ECB confirmed the news when releasing the squad for next month’s one-off Test against Ireland, for which Jonny Bairstow returns after recovering from a triple leg break and will take the wicketkeeping gloves from Ben Foakes, who has been left out altogether.