'Long time coming' - Stokes 'really excited' with Archer return - video Dailymotion

Ben Stokes admits Jofra Archer’s long-awaited Test comeback is a 'pretty great day' for English cricket.

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00:00Joff Rarcher is back, how excited are you by that prospect?

00:04Yeah, really exciting. I think it's great for English fans but also for Joff. It's been

00:15a long time coming for him. I think the way in which he's handled the injury setbacks

00:23over that period has been very commendable and then the way in which he's got himself

00:29back onto the field and playing cricket over a long period of time now. It was exciting

00:35to have him back into the squad and in contention for last week but now that we can say he's

00:40in the playing XI, very exciting for the group but also I think a pretty great day and I think

00:46Joff's going to be pretty proud of himself that he's managed to get himself back here

00:50after two pretty big injury scares. Whenever he does get the ball in his hand there is

00:55that change in the game. I think the opposition feel it as well because they know what he

01:01can do in a spell. So yeah, I don't think there's any reason as to why we can't see Joff Rarcher

01:09operating at a level like we've seen here in Lawsona's debut.