AS England and Australia fight tooth and nail in round three of the Ashes at Headingley, Darren Lehmann, the former Australia coach, likens Jofra Archer, England’s ferocious new strike bowler, to one of the great battery of West Indian pacemen of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.
Lehmann, who resigned as the Australian team coach in March 2018 following the sandpapergate scandal at the Cape Town Test, is back in Yorkshire this week not only to watch the Leeds Test, but also to discuss next summer’s Hundred squad which will be based at Headingley and of which he’s just been appointed head coach.
A hugely popular figure at Yorkshire where he is regarded by far as the county’s best overseas player (more than 8,000 first-class runs and 26 hundreds at 68.76), Lehmann has noticed something extraordinary about Archer’s devastating speed.
“He’s exciting, has talent and is fun to watch,” he said. “He’s a bit like the old West Indies attack when they had Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.
“Archer can turn a game quite quickly and is an impact player, like we had in Mitchell Johnson. Everyone has fear about facing fast bowling. You wouldn’t be human if you did not. So Australia’s batsmen have to be sharper and make good decisions and quick ones. The important thing now is that all our batsmen have faced Archer and know what’s coming.
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