{"id":694651,"date":"2026-07-16T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:48:16","slug":"jofra-archer-reacts-to-chamindu-wickramasinghes-bowling-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694651\/","title":{"rendered":"Jofra Archer reacts to Chamindu Wickramasinghe&#8217;s Bowling Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Frhj2\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Jofra%20Archer%20reacts%20to%20Chamindu%20Wickramasinghe%27s%20Bowling%20Action&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Frhj2\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Jofra%20Archer%20reacts%20to%20Chamindu%20Wickramasinghe%27s%20Bowling%20Action%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Frhj2\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-245488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fbb03203-dc51-45a2-84dd-535c163376f1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\"\/><br \/>England fast bowler Jofra Archer has praised Jaffna Kings all-rounder Chamindu Wickramasinghe after a video of the Sri Lankan\u2019s bowling action drew comparisons to the England star.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange began when Jaffna Kings shared a training clip of Chamindu on social media, asking fans whether his bowling action reminded them of \u201csomeone from the England side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaffna Kings teammate David Wiese joined the conversation, commenting: \u201cSeen that action many times,\u201d while tagging Archer.<\/p>\n<p>Archer replied to Wiese\u2019s comment, writing: \u201cBest one I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The light-hearted interaction has since attracted plenty of attention from cricket fans ahead of the 2026 Lanka Premier League season. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England fast bowler Jofra Archer has praised Jaffna Kings all-rounder Chamindu Wickramasinghe after a video of the Sri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694651","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=694651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}