{"id":729796,"date":"2026-01-30T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/729796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:43:14","slug":"jofra-archer-named-in-england-side-for-first-t20-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/729796\/","title":{"rendered":"Jofra Archer named in England side for first T20 in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fast bowler Jofra Archer has been named in England&#8217;s team to face Sri Lanka in the first T20 match after recovering from injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old missed the final two Tests of England&#8217;s 4-1 Ashes defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cn09jw79y5ko\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a side strain<\/a> and was not initially named in the squad for the three-match T20 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was expected to make his return at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cgrdlnz88ljo\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T20 World Cup next month<\/a> but is in the XI for Friday&#8217;s match in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Ben Duckett misses out with a bruised finger so Jos Buttler will open the batting on his record-equalling 401st appearance in an England shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdrepyep6rpo\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England beat Sri Lanka<\/a> by 53 runs to clinch a one-day international series win on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England team to face Sri Lanka in first T20: <\/b>Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Harry Brook (captain), Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast bowler Jofra Archer has been named in England&#8217;s team to face Sri Lanka in the first T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-729796","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\/115981517050495267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729796","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=729796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}