If the chat is true and Jofra Archer has indeed added himself to the list for this weekend’s Indian Premier League mega auction then it will come as a slap in the face to England and their hopes of winning the Ashes in Australia next winter.

The threat of a three-year ban from the lucrative Indian Premier League means Jofra Archer will appear in this weekend’s auction, potentially complicating England’s plans to nurse him back to Test cricket.

At the 2022 mega-auction, Mumbai Indians spent INR 8 crore (then USD 1.06m approx.) on Archer even though he had just undergone elbow surgery and was not fit to play that season. He played five games for MI in 2023, taking two wickets, before his season was ended prematurely by another elbow issue.

England fast bowler Jofra Archer will enter the Indian Premier League auction despite being left off the shortlist.

Jofra Archer has been included in the pool and the franchises will be interested to see the set which features the England pacer.

England pacer Jofra Archer has made a last-minute entry into the IPL 2025 Auction, after having decided earlier to give the upcoming auction a miss.

Quietly, with little fuss, Jofra Archer has pulled together six months of cricket that provides enough evidence for England fans to dare to dream that he could be involved in a hotly-anticipated Ashes series that begins exactly one year today.