LONDON: England fast bowler Jofra Archer won’t rush his return from knee operation if it impacts his main aims of playing with the Twenty20 World Cup in India and also the following Ashes series against Australia after this season, ” the 26-year-old has stated.
Archer failed surgery on his knee Friday and has since been ruled out of England’s two-Test series against New Zealand beginning next month.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) can review his progress each month using all the bowler looking unsure for England’s five-Test home series against India in August and September.
“One thing I’m determined about post-elbow surgery isn’t to dash my comeback since my main focus would be to be playing England at the Twenty20 World Cup along with Ashes after this calendar year,” Archer wrote in his column for the Daily Mail.
“These are my goals.
If I return before then and figure out how to play at the home Test series against India — then ok, so be it.
If I do not, I’m quite ready to sit outside the summer.
“How I am looking at matters is I would rather miss out a couple of weeks of a year so I have a couple more decades in my career” See AlsoJofra Archer undergoes knee operation, evaluation on return to coaching following a monthEngland rate bowler Jofra Archer has undergone surgery on his knee and his progress will be evaluated in a month, and both the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Wednesday.
Barbados-born Archer was plagued with the injury since ancient 2020 and it kept him from the season’s Indian Premier League.
“I only need to find this harm sprinkled once and for everyone and that is why I am not looking that far ahead or in dates to get a return to activity — as if I do not do this right, I’ll not play some cricket.
Phase,” he also wrote.
“I’m not likely to do myself some good by coming again until I am fully fit, therefore I’ll take some time and do what’s ideal for my entire life.
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Archer Will Not rush return Exceeding T20 WC, Ashes prospects
