{"id":163291,"date":"2025-06-06T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163291\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:40:09","slug":"england-quick-primed-for-big-test-comeback-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163291\/","title":{"rendered":"England quick primed for big Test comeback against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But recent developments indicate that Archer might be back in the mix sooner, with England national selector Luke Wright stating that the pacer is on course to make a return ahead of the second Test against India, starting on 2 July in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports, Wright said, &#8220;Joff&#8217;s trucking on really well, actually. The plans for him, he&#8217;s playing a few second-team games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s getting a few loading up in the second team for Sussex, and then the idea for him is to play for Sussex against Durham, I think on the 23rd, just during the first Test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, he&#8217;ll play for Sussex if all things go well, and then if things go well, fingers crossed, he should be available for the second Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But recent developments indicate that Archer might be back in the mix sooner, with England national selector Luke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[15034,1406,393,15036,68584,68585,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-app-stream","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-highlighted-news","12":"tag-icc-world-test-championship","13":"tag-jofra-archer-04-01-1995","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114637178463858343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}