Archer to play first England ODI in 18 months

Fast bowler Jofra Archer will play his first one-day world 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 nan world fold earlier June's T20 World Cup.

But stand-in England skipper Harry Brook confirmed nan Sussex pacer will play successful nan first ODI of nan five-match bid pinch nary restrictions connected his workload wrong nan game.

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

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

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

Injury has constricted Archer to conscionable 21 ODI appearances pinch only 7 of those coming since he played a starring domiciled arsenic England won nan 2019 World Cup.

With an Ashes bid successful Australia now 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 nan astir he has bowled successful a master lucifer this year, while he besides played immoderate nine cricket successful Barbados anterior to nan World Cup successful nan Caribbean.

Archer remains 1 of nan past remaining links to nan World Cup-winning squad of 5 years ago, pinch Adil Rashid nan only different subsister successful nan 16-man group to look existent world champions Australia.

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

A miserable defence of their 50-over title successful India successful 2023 felt for illustration 1 tourney excessively galore for England's first awesome white-ball broadside and, though Test coach Brendon McCullum doesn't statesman his limited-overs duties until January, location is simply a consciousness nan caller era starts here.

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

"I deliberation it's each going to merge into 1 astatine immoderate point," said Brook, who will lead England for nan first clip successful this series.

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

"[Interim caput coach Marcus Trescothick] has been astir nan Test squad anyhow since Baz took over, he knows wrong retired really Baz useful and really he wants nan squad to operate."

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

But they are very overmuch successful nan number pinch Reece Topley's 29 ODI caps nan 2nd most, aft Rashid's 135, successful nan England squad.

Jordan Cox and Jacob Bethell only made their world debuts successful nan caller T20 bid and seamer John Turner is still waiting for his first cap.

This is an England squad pinch overmuch to beryllium and pinch nan Champions Trophy successful February accelerated approaching, location is small by measurement of an accommodation period.

Much for illustration pinch nan Test side's revival, though, nan cardinal connection to nan players is simply a elemental one.

"We want to spell retired location and beryllium entertaining, entertain nan crowd, return nan crippled on, effort to return wickets and put nan unit connected their bowlers," Brook added.

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

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

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

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

"I consciousness very fortunate to person him successful this team. There is nary hiding down nan truth that he's 1 of our go-to men pinch nan shot complete a 50-over period.

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