Archer to play first England ODI in 18 months

Fast bowler Jofra Archer volition play his archetypal one-day planetary since March 2023 erstwhile England look Australia astatine Trent Bridge connected Thursday.

The 29-year-old has been cautiously managed by England aft elbow and backmost injuries successful caller years.

Archer has been eased backmost in, playing exclusively T20 cricket since returning to the planetary fold earlier June's T20 World Cup.

But stand-in England skipper Harry Brook confirmed the Sussex pacer volition play successful the archetypal ODI of the five-match bid with nary restrictions connected his workload wrong the game.

"He's evidently a world-beater, and it'll beryllium bully to person him alongside maine and going retired determination and taking them on," Brook told BBC Sport.

"I haven't faced him overmuch successful the nets, I effort and enactment distant from that.

"He's our strongest seamer and he's got a batch of acquisition down him successful white-ball arsenic well. I'm looking guardant to moving with him and seeing him run again."

Injury has constricted Archer to conscionable 21 ODI appearances with lone 7 of those coming since helium played a starring relation arsenic England won the 2019 World Cup.

With an Ashes bid successful Australia present 14 months away, this is simply a important measurement up for him.

A six-over spell for Sussex's 2nd XI earlier this summertime was the astir helium has bowled successful a nonrecreational lucifer this year, portion helium besides played immoderate nine cricket successful Barbados anterior to the World Cup successful the Caribbean.

Archer remains 1 of the past remaining links to the World Cup-winning squad of 5 years ago, with Adil Rashid the lone different subsister successful the 16-man radical to look existent satellite champions Australia.

Injury has ruled retired skipper Jos Buttler and seamer Mark Wood, portion Joe Root has been rested. All of them would adhd to the 2019 contingent but, determination is undoubtedly a caller consciousness to this England squad.

A miserable defence of their 50-over rubric successful India successful 2023 felt similar 1 tourney excessively galore for England's archetypal large white-ball broadside and, though Test manager Brendon McCullum doesn't statesman his limited-overs duties until January, determination is simply a consciousness the caller epoch starts here.

McCullum led the gyration of the Test team, alongside Ben Stokes, and fixed the attacking marque of cricket played by the white-ball broadside erstwhile they were astatine their champion nether erstwhile skipper Eoin Morgan, an overlap successful the approaches is inevitable.

"I deliberation it's each going to merge into 1 astatine immoderate point," said Brook, who volition pb England for the archetypal clip successful this series.

"It's each going to beryllium played reasonably similar. We're going to person the aforesaid principles oregon nevertheless we privation to spell astir playing the game, trying to enactment that guardant to the squad already earlier Baz takes over.

"[Interim caput manager Marcus Trescothick] has been astir the Test squad anyhow since Baz took over, helium knows wrong retired however Baz works and however helium wants the squad to operate."

For those remaining from the years nether Morgan and Trevor Bayliss then, it whitethorn beryllium much of a refresher people than a revolution.

But they are precise overmuch successful the number with Reece Topley's 29 ODI caps the 2nd most, aft Rashid's 135, successful the England squad.

Jordan Cox and Jacob Bethell lone made their planetary debuts successful the caller T20 bid and seamer John Turner is inactive waiting for his archetypal cap.

This is an England squad with overmuch to beryllium and with the Champions Trophy successful February accelerated approaching, determination is small by mode of an accommodation period.

Much similar with the Test side's revival, though, the cardinal connection to the players is simply a elemental one.

"We privation to spell retired determination and beryllium entertaining, entertain the crowd, instrumentality the crippled on, effort to instrumentality wickets and enactment the unit connected their bowlers," Brook added.

Of course, putting that into signifier against an experienced Australia side, who person won their past 12 ODIs, is alternatively little simple.

Key to that tally has been leg-spinner Adam Zampa, who volition play successful his 100th ODI astatine Trent Bridge.

The 32-year-old has taken 169 ODI wickets astatine an mean of 28, with his wickets-per-match ratio of 1.7 amended than that of Shane Warne (1.5).

"He's surely tracking towards being 1 of our top ever ODI players," said Mitch Marsh, who volition skipper Australia successful Pat Cummins' absence.

"I consciousness precise fortunate to person him successful this team. There is nary hiding down the information that he's 1 of our go-to men with the shot implicit a 50-over period.

"That's 1 of the challenges that he's taken successful his stride, being that idiosyncratic for us, and helium thrives successful the bigger moments, which is what each large players do."