Brutal Jofra Archer leaves cricket reeling from his Ashes blows

Jofra Archer, England’s fearsome fast bowler, has hit 19 batsmen since his international bow and rammed the concussion debate into the spotlight with the ball that struck Steve Smith

In the end it took an act of God to stop Jofra Archer. A thick bank of black cloud blew over the Grand Stand at a quarter-past-seven and in the twilight of Sunday night the umpires rightly decided that it was all of a sudden so dark that the Australian batsmen could not safely face him any more, if they ever could safely face him at all. Archer had already hit Marnus Labuschagne, Tim Paine and Matthew Wade earlier in the day, and that was in bright sunlight.

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