An accident while cleaning his fish tank was the cause of Jofra Archer’s hand injury that troubled him during the series against India along with an elbow issue and a glass fragment was found lodged in the England pacer’s right middle finger that had to be operated.
England’s director of cricket Ashley Giles made this revelation while giving an update on Archer, who underwent the surgery on Monday.
“They (surgeons) have operated and I think they found a small fragment of glass still in attendance. It obviously healed but there was part of the fish tank still in his finger,” Giles said on BBC’s Tuffers and Vaughan show.
“This is going to sound like an awful conspiracy ... But it’s true.”
Archer suffered a cut on his right hand’s middle finger in the accident that took place at his home at Hove in January prior to the tour of India.
The finger healed sufficiently for Archer to take part in both the Test and T20I legs of the tour but the England management decided it would be prudent to investigate the wound properly after he flew home ahead of the three-match ODI series to undergo treatment on a long-term elbow injury.