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From Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent
Can you envision Jofra Archer vs Steve Smith at Australia, on difficult pitches, in just two years’ time?
With pace from Olly Stone and Mark Wood backing this up? And Stokes, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes… it would be fabulous!
I truly hope that we are going to get to observe a Jofra Archer, James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes Test quartet .
Archer bowled well because of his 6-62 in The Oval as Australia stumbled to 225 all out, and I have really enjoyed watching him.
In his finest he wasn’t in Manchester – it was chilly and he’s going to get days like that to deal with. But here, with all the sun a small bit from the pitch, on his back, he’s bowled with precision and bitterness, which is what you would like.
Archer is a laid-back sort of person and he seems to have fitted in really well with England in all formats. He keeps shifting his hair, he’s got gold bouncing around his throat – and he’s a very likeable lad. Nothing appears to faze him.
One of the things about him is how fast he learns things. He has a good knuckleball that he learnt in a week and then bowled it with the seeing of a packed Lord at the World Cup Super Over – that is extraordinary!
It shows how gifted he is. He can learn quickly, and that he has the confidence to perform well. He’ll move from strength to strength.
I believe he needs to be a short spells man. When you have got you keep on them, and also Joe Root might have to be cautious with him.
John Snow was constantly captained by ray Illingworth extremely nicely. Back in Australia, drops that were three-over bowled. He knew that was what the captain desired you gear yourself up – and you realize you’re not going to be bowled to the floor.
It doesn’t really work in a single and if Archer is used in spells, he has the ability to return for a second.
What’s interesting about Archer is his speed fluctuates quite a good deal, and I don’t think he is doing it.
He’s off a run with a very easy kind of strategy. So when it clicks, you receive those astonishing 90mph blasts. Other times, he’s hovering round the 87mph mark, that remains fast, but it is interesting to watch how the ball comes out.
I don’t have any doubt he will get better and better.
I suspect that somewhere down the internet Archer is going to have the question concerning leagues – if he would like to be more travelling for weeks and be off for ages. It is going to be something England might have to look at they could manage not only Archer but the other, players that are T20 that are talented.
Kevin Pietersen desired to do that and it was thrown out, but I guess times have changed. I believe England have awakened to the simple fact they are going to allow their cricketers to go.
Ultimately, Sam Curran. I fancied him for out Steve Smith now and him bothered, even though that wicket went at the end to Woakes.
What I love about both Currans, with understood their daddy Kevin fairly well and played against him a lot, is they’re both furious rivals.
You can see both of these are a chip off the old block. Sam comes in, and he’s a little terrier, nipping off in the ankles, asking queries.
Hopefully we will see these promising young players in South Africa and New Zealand this winter, on hard ones and pitches who swing. Having seemed bereft abroad the last time they were in Australia England have men for several seasons.
That’s what pace will for you.
Jonathan Agnew spoke to the Amy Lofthouse of BBC Sport.

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