Distraught Jofra Archer has been left cursing his luck and his injured elbow after it ruled him out of England’s entire Ashes summer.
Archer is now facing a battle to try and get fit for England’s World Cup defence in October thanks to a recurrence of a stress fracture of a right elbow that has disrupted his career for three years.
But even though Archer may be feeling devastated and frustrated by his repeated injury problems there is nothing but support for him from the ECB, who are keeping the faith in one of their most prized assets who has delivered on the biggest stage and is desperate to do so again.