Simon Doull says that Jofra Archer being unavailable for England’s first New Zealand Test, following his involvement in the IPL, is “completely wrong” 👀

That's not what you were saying sitting in Mumbai in jio hotstar & cricbuzz studios, eh Doullie. Just a month ago when they were paying you for commentary ipl was the best thing since sliced bread

Not long back this cunt was commentating in the IPL. What more clear cut evidence BCCI need to acknowledge that these ungrateful scums are milking it out and spewing venom at the same time. Time to sanitize the league for good

Look, ECB could have scheduled the first Test on June 7 or 8 instead of June 4. A push back of four days could have gotten everyone involved. #ENGvNZ

Jofra archer contract 1M£ Henry WOR Nathan smith = 600K£ Guess who’s missing first test due to ipl .

Simon raised the valid points, due to these t20 leagues across the world now player not prioritising the country even few ones have taken early retirement as well. It is setting a wrong precedent and all Boards needs to take some steps regarding this. May be give NOC only of they will not skip InTL cricket and also hike their fees so it could encourage players.

Simon being salty for not getting the IPL commentary gig this year @Sdoull

Simon Doull hit the nail in the coffin - Archer is not interested in red ball cricket, if he was he would've been bowling with that red cherry.

Interesting, the match will start from June 4th and IPL is already over. Whereas all Indian players are playing the Afg test.

Well said. Doull very often spot on. Excellent commentator

Simon Doull is completely right.

1.5 million for playing couple of months can secure your future for rest of your and your family’s future for rest of the life. Its a simple maths.

This is absolutely spot on and more journalists and sky pundits need to be calling this out. I know a lot of them are Keys mates but it’s an absolute joke Archer has been allowed to miss this test match at a time your charging England fans hundreds of pounds a day to watch tests!

England should move on from Archer. Despite all the hype for many years, he averages 30 in Test cricket with the ball.

Is it really that big of an issue? So he misses a couple of Tests at the start of the summer - other bowlers can fill in easily. With respect to New Zealand, it's not a really important series anyway.

Check Jofra's schedule for the last week before giving expert opinion. And with all due respect to NZ bowlers, they mostly warm the benches.

This guy was pretty happy doing commentary in IPL when jofra was playing now IPL is over he’s here talking💩. Why didn’t he say anything there in India?

@jtwHCAFC Spot on!

Doull has learned how to speak in forked tongues. He will say one thing while he's a commentator in IPL, then change his tune when in UK. Anyway, Ben Stokes has giving a mature and befitting response to these old fogies.

Simon Doull 100% right as always.

“Tells me he has no interest in playing test cricket” and it’s based on inaccurate information 🤣🤣 he has been doing his loads over there. No point doing BHM content if you’re going to allow racist tropes like “he can’t be bothered” to be perpetuated.

Why is there such fascination with Archer? He is aged 31 and has 60 test wickets at average over 30. I think English cricket will survive without him.

Absolutely spot on

Case of sour grapes ? Simon didn’t earn enough this year from IPL? Or was he banned ?

And he would be correct. Archer shouldn't be selected for the entire series. Nothing is bigger than playing test cricket for your country.

Are we still living in mediaeval times where a person is expected to fight for abstract ideas like nation and race instead of spending his time and energy for real tangible things like money?

thank you Doully! Us Sussex fans saw him once last year! ONCE. And he's supposed to be our biggest player. It's completely unacceptable

@JofraArcher pack your bags son .

Its not just the IPL interfering. Let's not forget our Test Summer is now planned around a meaningless Competition called the 💯

Correct fuck the Ipl

See these guys have issues with IPL..they always bring IPL for no reason (resist mindset)..I don't think Simon will get a contract as a commentator for IPL in future

Archer is paid 1.2 Million pounds for 2 months of IPL

Doully, please stop the bs. You know EXACTLY what is going on. Archer picks and chooses, not the ECB. If the ECB don't like it, Archer quits, if Archer quits, it will be another nail in the coffin of test cricket.

Idea for new clause in his next central contract: no show, no dough.

If you have a central England contract you should be available for England , otherwise don’t play at all .