Jordan ready to build solid partnership witharcher
Chris Jordan celebrates wicket against Australia on Friday
Chris Jordan is looking forward to playing more with Jofra Archer after the seamers starred for England in Friday’s Twenty20 series opener against Australia.
It was only the second time the pair, who were both born in Barbados, had featured together on the international scene and they inspired a two-run win for Eoin Morgan’s side.
Before the game, Archer presented Jordan with a cap to mark his 50th T20I appearance and said a few kind words about his fellow fast bowler.
It saw the roles reversed because last summer Jordan was asked to do a presentation when Archer became England’s 693rd Test player at the start of the Ashes series.
At the Ageas Bowl the Sussex duo delivered when it mattered most and they are eager to play together more ahead of next year’s
World Cup in India.
“The first was his T20 debut in Cardiff (against Pakistan in 2019) and this was the second, so hopefully plenty more to come,” Jordan said.
Since the duo first met almost a decade ago, they have become close friends and when Jordan gave Archer his Test cap last summer he revealed it was one of the proudest moments of his career.
It has been a rollercoaster ride for 25-year-old Archer since his debut for England last May, helping clinch World Cup glory before he impressed in the Ashes, but he was racially abused in New Zealand at the end of 2019 and again this summer.
Jordan added: “One of the things I told him when I gave him his cap was that at the minute he was on a high but he will experience some low periods.
“But because of the character he has, he will always find a way of coming through it. The biggest thing for me last night was the amount of times Jofra was smiling.”
It took a fine comeback in the field for England to triumph with Australia going from 124 for one to 133 for five in 14 balls.
The penultimate over, bowled by Jordan, went for four and it enabled Tom Curran to defend 15 and put Morgan’s men 1-0 up ahead of today’s second meeting in the three-match series.