JOFRA'S GOT QUICK POINT

Archer shows he's good as new after injury hell

- By Mike Walters

HE had to wait 1,598 days after his 42nd Test wicket for the 43rd to come along.

But on the ground where he wheeled away in joy after his super-over heroics at the 2019 World Cup final, Jofra Archer’s celebration was no less euphoric.

Armed with the new ball, Archer's third delivery — travelling at 90mph — tracked Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s outside edge like a golfer’s putt teasing the cup.

And when Harry Brook pouched a routine catch at second slip, the roar around Africa at The Oval in 1994 or Archer himself terrorising Australia’s Steve Smith on his Test debut six years ago.