Jofra Archer desperately wants to return in test cricket: England captain Ben Stokes has said that fast bowler Joffra Archer is desperate to make a comeback in Test cricket. Archer is also messaging Captain Stokes from time to time regarding withdrawal. Archer last played Test cricket in February 2021. After this, due to injury, he is constantly running out of the team. Archer recently messaged Stokes, ‘Jim’. This message of Archer meant last month from England’s only Test match against Zimbabwe. He wanted to return to the Test team against Zimbabwe.

What happened in Stokes-Murcher?

During the press conference before the match against India, Stokes talked about Archer. He told what has happened between the two. Stokes said, “He is desperate to return to Test cricket, he suddenly messaged me- ‘Jim?’ Meaning, I am playing against Zimbabwe? I had to stop it right now.

Archer has been out of the Test team due to injury for the last four years. His albow had a problem for a long time. After this, he suffered an injury to his thumb in the IPL. Because of which he was out of the first Test against India. However, it is expected that he may be seen playing for Sussex in the county championship this week. In the hope that he should be ready to play in the second Test against India.

Archer’s Test Career

Archer made his Test debut in 2019. After this, he was able to play only 13 Test matches. Most of the team remained outside the team due to injury. Archer has taken 42 wickets in these 13 Tests. Archer’s average has been around 32 during this period. Archer last played against Team India in the year 2021. During that time, Archer took four wickets in 3 innings against India.

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Kl rahul ben stokes faces unique challenge: KL Rahul is currently in England. He is part of the Indian Test team in the five -match Test series against England starting on 20 June. A funny video of Rahul is going viral before the start of the Test series. Where he is seen doing different and unique challenges. Rahul is sometimes seen playing cricket on a moving truck, sometimes he is seen targeting the autorickshaw. England Test team captain Ben Stokes is also participating in this challenge with him.

Rahul-Stokes faced unique challenges

Rahul and Stokes got this challenge done by Red Bull. The red bull keeps getting unique challenges in different sports from time to time. Now he got these two players challenged with the intention of promoting the Indo-England Test series.

First Challenge- In the first challenge, Rahul had to face a bowling machine over an 18 tire moving truck, where he had to get 8 balls. Out of which he was to hit the ball up to 500 meters.

Second Challenge- In the second challenge, Stokes was put in the middle of the middle lake. Where the cricket pitch was floating. His challenge was that he had to hit the ball at six different floating goals on the lake.

Third Challenge- In the third challenge, Rahul and Stokes faced challenges in different rooms. In which first, the ball was to come from different angles, in the second, the ball suddenly had to come at some time. In the third, he was to play on a pitch made of marble, rubber and other materials. Whereas in the fourth, he had to face the balls where each ball behaves differently.

Fourth Challenge- In the fourth and last challenge, Stokes and Rahul had to target him with a ball before reaching close to him. It had to target the target on the previously moving flour. After this, the second had to target the target on the container. In the third, there was a target of target on the ground. At the same time, the last stop was to target the glass hanging on top of a drone octocopter. Rahul targeted at the first stop. At the same time, Stokes scored in the second and third stop. Whereas in the last stop, Rahul ended this unique challenge by targeting the glass.

Unbelievable Work by Red Bull – Its Kl Rahul vs Ben Stokes pic.twitter.com/luuktmq6yp

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