The culmination of that plan is a comeback at Lord’s, scene of Archer’s two most memorable moments in an England shirt, both in his debut year of 2019.<\/p>\n
Archer bowled the super over in England’s heart-stopping World Cup final triumph over New Zealand and, weeks later, returned to the same ground to make his Test bow against Australia.<\/p>\n
He made an instant impact with an electrifying spell, felling and concussing Aussie run-machine Steve Smith.<\/p>\n
Stokes believes Archer can “definitely” make the impact he did six years ago.<\/p>\n
“When he has played for England in the short format, it’s obvious whenever he gets the ball in his hand, there’s a change in the game,” added Stokes.<\/p>\n
“The opposition feel it as well, because they know what he can do in a spell. I don’t think there’s any reason we can’t see Jofra Archer operating at the level we saw at Lord’s on his debut.”<\/p>\n
Though there is a symmetry to Archer’s return, it is not without risk. He has played only one first-class match in the build-up to the third Test, in Sussex’s trip to Durham two weeks ago. He bowled 18 overs and claimed one wicket.<\/p>\n
“If we did not think he was ready, or in a position to be selected, he would not be selected,” said Stokes. “We think he’s done enough to be able to get through a Test match. <\/p>\n
“Whenever you take the field, you are always putting yourself at risk. It’s a professional sport, it’s a very physical sport. We all know potentially stuff could go wrong, but we would not select someone if we didn’t think they could get through it.”<\/p>\n
While Archer’s inclusion was expected, it is perhaps a surprise that England have not made further changes to their pace attack.<\/p>\n
Woakes, 36, has taken only three wickets in the series, but has a superb record at Lord’s. In seven previous Tests on this ground he has taken 32 wickets at an average under 13.<\/p>\n
Carse appeared to be struggling with a recurrence of the foot problem that ruled him out of the beginning of the year, though has been passed fit to play.<\/p>\n
It means no place for either Sam Cook or Jamie Overton. Gus Atkinson is also in the squad as he continues his comeback from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
India have not named their XI but are expected to welcome back fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah after he was rested for the second Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The culmination of that plan is a comeback at Lord’s, scene of Archer’s two most memorable moments in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-251198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114824215474933222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251198","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=251198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}