England v India: Jofra returns

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Agnew is alongside Ashes winning bowler Steven Finn and BBC Sport writer Matt Henry to discuss Jofra Archer’s return to the England Test side. England captain Ben Stokes explains the decision. Plus, we hear from his teammates Chris Woakes and Saqib Mahmood, and former New Zealand bowler Shane Bond - who is Archer’s bowling coach at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL.

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0:40.5	Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew and welcome to the Test Match special podcast where Joffra Archer
0:44.9	returns to test cricket.
0:46.8	Archer will make his test match return for England against India at Lords on Thursday.
0:51.0	To discuss the role that he could play for England, I'm alongside Steve Finn, and the BBC
0:55.5	sport writer Matt Henry. We'll hear from his teammates, Chris Wokes and Saki Mamoud, and the former
1:01.0	New Zealand bowler Shane Bond, who is archer's bowling coach at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL.
1:06.6	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
1:12.1	Here's the England captain Ben Stokes, speaking to me at Lords about the decision to include Joffra.
1:17.7	Well, look, I think, you know, having Joffra back into our squad for the first time and in a long time was always going to be exciting.
1:25.1	And, you know, it's been a big two test matches for the bowlers. So, you know, you always want to try exciting and you know it's been a big two two test matches for the bowlers
1:28.9	so you know you always want to try and get your fresh legs in and yeah we feel you know the time's right
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