Jofra Archer On Playing The 2025-26 Ashes Series: English pacer Jofra Archer has declared that he wants to play in the Ashes in 2025/26 and will use this year to ensure that he plays in the historic series.
The 29-year-old quick has shown a very high ceiling in ability throughout his career. Owning the ability to ravage any batting order on his day, Archer, unfortunately, has had a career riddled with injuries.
His back and elbow issues resurfaced in March 2023, pushing him away from representing the Three Lions for 14 months. He just came back in time for a T20I series against Pakistan days before the 2024 T20 World Cup. While he did take 10 wickets in eight games as England made their way to the semi-final, he did not look his best throughout the competition.
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While he did return to limited-overs cricket fairly recently, JOfra has not played Test cricket for England since 2021. Having made his debut in the longest format during the 2019 Ashes against Australia, he was his team’s most impressive bowler in that series, having taken 22 wickets in four games.
Unfortunately, injuries have prevented Archer from featuring in the Ashes ever since. In the two series since, including the one played in his home country in 2023, England has not been able to win the storied Urn back from the Aussies.
The next England vs Australia Test series will be played Down Under in late 2025/early 2026. With the series being almost a year and a half away, it is still all that Jofra Archer has on his mind at the moment.
Jofra Archer On Playing The 2025-26 Ashes Series
While speaking to reporters, Archer said that he has been reading what negative comments people make about him on social media. His want of playing the next Ashes series is partly due to him wanting to shut his doubters down.
“I am going to use the rest of this year to make sure that is at least a possibility. I’m tired of going on Instagram and seeing posts saying ‘he’s going to be on the physio’s bed in the next two weeks’ and stuff like that. I want to spend the rest of the year proving some people wrong and hopefully play in another Ashes,” he told BBC Sports.
The right-arm pacer also commented on him playing cricket beside the Ashes in the next year or so, to which he said that he will be playing some County cricket next year, saying,
“I will manage myself as best as possible and get myself [through] until at least maybe the start of the Championship next year. I’ll probably play a few of those [games] and keep building up and getting that workload ready for Test cricket,” he said in the same interview. I am feeling good and want to get some games in. I am going to enjoy this little phase of some white-ball cricket.”
The England Cricket Team is currently playing a three-Test series against the West Indies. Having already won the first two games, they will look to win the last one to make it a whitewash. The England-West Indies Test will be played from July 26 to 30 in Birmingham’s Edgbaston Stadium.
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