London: England cricket team suffered another major setback on Thursday (August 5). As their fast bowler Jofra Archer was ruled out for the rest of the year, because of his right elbow has a new injury.
Archer will miss the ongoing home Test series against India, the Twenty20 World Cup and the Ashes in Australia later, the England and Wales Cricket Board said in a statement. “The England and Wales Cricket Board can confirm that England fast bowler Jofra Archer underwent further scans on his injured right elbow last week. The scans revealed that he has suffered a recurrence of a stress fracture of his right elbow.” ECB said in a statement.
Elbow 😂
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) July 8, 2015
“The 26-year-old, who had an operation in May to remove a bone fragment from his elbow, returned to play last month. As part of his return-to-bowling programmed, he became aware of increasing discomfort in his elbow during matches for Sussex in the Vitality Blast and a 50-over friendly against Oxfordshire. The operation is not related to the stress fracture that sidelined the player previously. He will now spend time on an extended break from cricket before returning for a medical review in early autumn.” the statement added.
After the news of Archer’s injury, social media got flooded with speedy-recovery messages for the England fast bowler. Amid this, an old tweet from Archer also went viral. Now, cricket fans must be aware of Jofra Archer and his prophetic tweets. Archer, who is hailed as a modern-day ‘Nostradamus’ for his ability to predict the future when it comes to his tweet. From predicting the Super Over in 50 over 2019’s Cricket World Cup Final to Narendra Modi’s 21-day curfew for coronavirus pandemic to knowing all along that Joe Biden would be US’s next President.
The same happened after ECB made the major news officials. One of his tweets from July 2015 resurfaced which made fans think Archer knew about his injury back then. “Elbow” was written in the post alongside a laughing emoticon. He did it once again, the post went viral in no time with Archer’s prophecy once again becoming the talk of the town.
