Jofra Archer is facing surgery on the chronic elbow injury that is casting a cloud over his long-term Test future and could miss the whole of England's international summer. Jofra Archer has been ruled out England's Tests against New Zealand due to an elbow injuryAn operation would mean an absence of around eight to 10 weeks which would also rule Archer out of this summer's white-ball cricket against Sri Lanka and Pakistan and take him to the brink of the stellar Test series against India in August and September. Then a decision may well have to be made over how much Test cricket Archer, even at just 26, can actually play. Archer, in action earlier this week, made a return to the Sussex line up to play against Kent'The issue is a sad one for Jofra,' said Brown on Sunday night. Those hopes were cruelly dashed on Sunday night and it seems inevitable Archer faces an operation that could be pivotal to his first-class future.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2021 18:10 UTC