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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.
Ben Stokes is the latest player whose fitness for England’s opening Test of the summer has been thrown into doubt, with the coach of his Indian Premier League team admitting that the Test captain is unable to bowl and is being seen simply as “batting cover”, six weeks after his last appearance in the competition.
A month before the start of the Ashes and a little over a fortnight before England face Ireland in their first Test of the summer, Jimmy Anderson has joined a disconcertingly expanding list of injury doubts after a scan confirmed that he had suffered a mild strain to his right groin during Lancashire’s County Championship draw with Somerset.
Jofra Archer has reacted angrily to further speculation over his fitness after it emerged that he had undergone a minor elbow operation during his recent absence from the Indian Premier League’s Mumbai Indians.
Chris Woakes will seek talks with Ben Stokes and direct instructions on England’s new style of play as he looks to force his way into this summer’s Ashes plans.
Ben Stokes was unrepentant after England’s historic, nail-biting one-run defeat to New Zealand in Wellington, insisting he had no regrets about the follow-on and stating he will plough on to the Indian Premier League despite a longstanding knee injury.
Joe Root admitted he is now truly loving life without the burden of captaincy follafter his masterful unbeaten century helped England take control of the second Test in Wellington.
Ben Stokes has given up warm-up cricket, pared back his training sessions and, in response to a chronic left knee problem that might have prompted a break earlier on in his career, the all-rounder has cut his bowling to moments of absolute necessity.This is not to say Stokes is not putting in. Far from it. It is just that the less the England captain pays heed to the demands of maintaining his personal output, the more this team appear to take on some of the unquantifiable aspects of his cricket; the aura, the golden arm, and that unrelenting forward momentum.