Utilita Bowl on Sunday<\/a> added: “He’s a proper cricketer, hence why we’ve taken our time with him to make sure that we give him every chance to be in the biggest series of all of our lives.<\/p>\n“He’s going to be a huge player when we get to Australia, as a number of others are.<\/p>\n
“That was an unbelievable spell,” added McCullum, after Archer removed four of South Africa’s top five inside the powerplay as the Proteas plummeted to 24-6 in 9.5 overs.<\/p>\n
“(He’s) got quicker. It was box-office bowling… you didn’t want to miss a ball.<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports’ Eoin Morgan praised Jofra Archer’s appetite to bounce back from injuries as he said few bowlers in the world have the England quick’s skills<\/p>\n
“I thought it was brilliant and not just his pace but his skill, his ability to shift it both ways and to test batters with the steep bounce he gets.”<\/p>\n
Archer is in the squad for the three-match T20I series against South Africa, which starts in Cardiff on Wednesday (6.30pm first ball on Sky Sports Cricket) having not been rested like multi-format batters Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith.<\/p>\n
McCullum said: “I think a lot of injuries happen when you almost down tools completely. We’ve had a good plan with Jof over the last little while and he’s rewarded us for the type of planning we’ve had with performances like this one.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think we’ll wrap him up per se, we’ll just keep working with him on how he’s going and work out what’s best for him.”<\/p>\n
England vs South Africa – results and fixtures<\/p>\n
All games live on Sky Sports, all times UK and Ireland \ud83d\udd70\ufe0f<\/p>\n
First T20: Wednesday September 10 (6.30pm) – CardiffSecond T20: Friday September 12 (6.30pm) – Emirates Old TraffordThird T20: Sunday September 14 (2.30pm) – Trent BridgeAshes series in Australia 2025-26 \ud83c\udfcf<\/p>\n
All times UK and Ireland<\/p>\n
First Test: Friday November 21-Tuesday November 25 (2.30am) – Optus Stadium, PerthSecond Test (day\/night): Thursday December 4-Monday December 8 (4.30am) – The Gabba, BrisbaneThird Test: Wednesday December 17-Sunday December 21 (12am) – Adelaide OvalFourth Test: Thursday December 25-Monday December 29 (11.30pm) – Melbourne Cricket GroundFifth Test: Sunday January 4-Thursday January 8 (11.30pm) – Sydney Cricket Ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England head coach Brendon McCullum dubbed this winter’s Ashes as “the biggest series of our lives” as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-127754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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