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Jofra Archer tests his levers for Sussex second XI as return from elbow injury begins
These were circumstances that, ordinarily, make cricketers question their life choices. It is a biting, blustery day on the South Coast, with a ragged wind harassing the bowlers in their run-ups and the batsmen in their stances. The first-team squad went through their paces for a while in the nets behind the square, but not a soul in the flats overlooking the 1st Central County Ground bothered to poke their heads out to observe the twos going about their business - Sussex versus Surrey in the Second XI County Championship.
The sun made infrequent appearances, but only of the ‘look what you could have won’ variety. Slip fielders stood stiff-limbed in the cordon, hands jammed deep into pockets when people talk of four-day cricket being pushed to the margins of the summer-these are the clichéd conditions that the mind's eye conjures up. And yet, these were also the conditions in which one of the most sought-after cricketers on the planet was making his comeback from injury. For a man who spends most of his professional life on the road - or, in the current climate, in hotel rooms of varying degrees of solitude - home, aka Hove, is most definitely where Jofra Archer’s heart is.
