ARCHER’S ASHES DREAM OVER

JOFRA ARCHER’S Ashes dream is over after a recurrence of a stress fracture in his right elbow ruled him out of any more cricket this year.

The news came as a devastating blow to Archer and England, who were hoping the 26-year-old would be the spearhead of their attack at the back end of this summer and beyond.

Instead Archer, below, now misses out on the current India series, a rearranged IPL, a T20 World

Cup and then the

Ashes Down Under, where he was expected to give Joe Root the firepower needed to regain the urn.

It is the cruellest of blows for Archer, who has been battling with