{"id":202853,"date":"2025-06-21T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202853\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:32:13","slug":"truth-behind-jofra-archer-injury-concerns-after-bizarre-sussex-move-left-fans-fearing-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202853\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth behind Jofra Archer injury concerns after bizarre Sussex move left fans fearing the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>England selector Luke Wright had said Archer would make comeback this week<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>The fast bowler was, though, absent from the Sussex squad named on Saturday<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>The national side stepped in to reveal the bizarre reason why he wasn&#8217;t listed<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-183\/david-coverdale.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DAVID COVERDALE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  10:52 EDT, 21 June 2025   |  Updated:  10:59 EDT, 21 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/jofra-archer\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e61f4390-4eae-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Jofra Archer<\/a> will make his long-awaited red-ball return on Sunday \u2013 not that his county wanted anyone to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sussex on Saturday named a 12-man squad for their County Championship match in Durham, with Archer mysteriously missing from the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Given England selector Luke Wright had said earlier this month that the pace bowler was set to make his comeback from injury at Chester-le-Street, there were fears he had broken down again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, England chiefs quickly clarified that the squad Sussex published on their website was wrong \u2013 and that Archer will indeed don whites for the first time in four years today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mail Sport understands Sussex had bizarrely left the 2019 World Cup winner off their list because they were trying to avoid extra media attention on his return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 30-year-old has not played any first-class cricket since Sussex&#8217;s County Championship clash with Kent in May 2021, a match he did not finish after injuring his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-911331c50f0a387e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99595621-0-image-a-64_1750517161863.jpg\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\" alt=\"England fans were left fearing that Jofra Archer was injured again after a bizarre Sussex call\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">England fans were left fearing that Jofra Archer was injured again after a bizarre Sussex call<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fd26501e7879505f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99595623-0-image-a-65_1750517163646.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"England selector Luke Wright (left) said earlier this month that Archer was set to make his comeback from injury this week\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">England selector Luke Wright (left) said earlier this month that Archer was set to make his comeback from injury this week<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b9dc0dd3ec6d4288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99595643-0-image-a-66_1750517166531.jpg\" height=\"635\" width=\"634\" alt=\"He was not named in Sussex's squad - but Mail Sport understands it was to avoid media attention\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">He was not named in Sussex&#8217;s squad &#8211; but Mail Sport understands it was to avoid media attention<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Archer&#8217;s last Test came in India earlier that year, while he has not featured in a home England Test since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Barbados-born star most recently played competitive cricket for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL in May, but his tournament was cut short after he suffered a thumb injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If Archer comes through this County Championship match unscathed, he could be available for England&#8217;s second Test against India at Edgbaston, starting on July 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">England are desperate to have Archer back fit ahead of this winter&#8217;s Ashes, especially with the limitations of their current pace attack being exposed in India&#8217;s first innings of the series at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Truth behind Jofra Archer injury concerns after bizarre Sussex move left fans fearing the worst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England selector Luke Wright had said Archer would make comeback this week The fast bowler was, though, absent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,1406,92,393,7504,4884,730,67663,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-england-cricket","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-jofra-archer","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722082366020872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202853","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=202853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}