Dan2501
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Not true at all. He bowled more overs than anyone else, but only by 33.1 ahead of Stuart Broad and Broad only plays 1 format of the game, so "long way" is a bit of an over-exaggeration.
Since he made his debut in May, Archer has played the 2nd most Tests and has bowled the 2nd most overs.
He's played the 3rd amount of ODis, and has bowled the 2nd most overs.
In T20is he's only played 1 game
He's bowled more per game than anyone else, especially in Tests, but only 4 overs more an innings than Broad.
Root's right to defend his use. He has used him more than anyone else since he became eligible, but he's the best bowler we've got, bowls quicker than anyone else and takes more wickets, obviously he's going to bowl a lot of overs, but that doesn't mean he's bowled a crazy amount of overs or he's been using him incorrectly. Jofra has admitted in interviews he loves bowling, and loves bowling long spells. He's done it for Sussex season after season, he bowled the same amount of overs per innings for Sussex in 2018 as he did this year for England in Tests, he bowled even more per innings in 2017, and bowled 70 more overs in FC cricket alone than he did across all formats for England this year. He's used to bowling long spells and lots of overs across different formats, that is one of his skills. Just because he's picked up an unfortunate injury does not mean he has been drastically over-bowled, or than Root and England have mis-managed him I don't believe.
Also, this has been a huge year in English cricket, and we needed our strongest XI on the pitch. We had a World Cup which we won and so played a lot of games in and an Ashes series, you need your gun bowlers and your best players playing in those series throughout, so there's been a big workload for the lads that play both formats, not just Jofra but Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Jos Buttler too. I think going forward you're going to see him possibly rotated and used less, but in 2019 we needed him and using him as much as we did paid off.
