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#4 Silverwood reveals England looking to ease Archer's workload

England paceman Jofra Archer (left) and head coach Chris Silverwood

After suffering from a string of injuries including a low-grade stress fracture in his right elbow, Jofra Archer's workload may well be toned down according to head coach Chris Silverwood.

Archer has been sidelined from the full tour of Sri Lanka as well as IPL 2020 and Silverwood wants Archer to be used judiciously and in small spells to increase the pacer's efficiency. Archer bowled more overs than any other English bowler in 2019 and if given an option, Silverwood would swap that any day.

He accepted that being a fast bowler in all three formats is tough work and therefore bowlers like Archer need to be handled with utmost care.

"Things like [bowling 40 overs in an innings] we have to look at... But sometimes, when needs must, you've got to do it."

"We managed Mark Wood through both the Test matches he's played here and he's bowled in short, sharp spells. Would we look to do that now with Jof? Yes, we probably would."

"Not really. It's just a case of: his injury occurred, the first scan didn't show us where it was, the second has. We can now put a plan in place and get him going for our summer."

"Being a fast bowler is hard work. It is hard work. Ask Jimmy [Anderson], ask [Stuart] Broad, ask any of them. Being a fast bowler is hard work. It's just how it is."

"We can't turn the clock back, all we can do is look to the future and say, 'Well, how are we going to do it from now on?'"

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