{"id":256116,"date":"2025-11-11T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256116\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:44:09","slug":"ashes-jofra-archer-and-mark-wood-wont-worry-australia-mitchell-johnson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256116\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes: Jofra Archer and Mark Wood won’t worry Australia – Mitchell Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s batters will not be scared by England’s pace attack in the Ashes, according to Mitchell Johnson.<\/p>\n

England have assembled their fastest group of bowlers for a generation as they aim to win a series in Australia for the first time since 2010-11.<\/p>\n

Jofra Archer and Mark Wood will spearhead the pace attack, with Archer famed for hitting Steve Smith with a delivery so ferocious in 2019, it forced the Australia skipper off the field with concussion.<\/p>\n

However, ex-fast bowler Johnson says Smith – and Australia – will not be fazed by Archer’s return after years of battling injury.<\/p>\n

“Since that match, Archer’s debut more than six years ago, he has barely played Test cricket – 14 more games in fact and just two Tests in the past four years,” wrote Johnson in The West Australian., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“The way he is spoken about it sounds like he’s played a hundred.<\/p>\n

“Archer has been out of the game for a long time with injuries, and while his highlight reel looks great, consistency is what matters in Test cricket.<\/p>\n

“Their [England’s] Ashes hopes rest on whether Wood and Archer can stay fit, stay fast, and stay relentless across five brutal Tests in Australian conditions.<\/p>\n

“The Australian top order won’t be fearful of the Wood-Archer combination. Respectful, yes, but not afraid.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s batters will not be scared by England’s pace attack in the Ashes, according to Mitchell Johnson. England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256116","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}