Negative comments about Jofra Archer’s hunger for Test cricket resound with the West Indian-born former England all-rounder
In the course of an hour-long chat Chris Lewis laughs often, and with an impressively wide range and depth. There are regular gurgling chuckles and the odd outright guffaw. When talk turns to the chatter around Jofra Archer – most recently comments from the former England captain Michael Vaughan about Archer’s suitability for Test cricket – the laugh is more of a knowing sigh.
Lewis was the eighth British cricketer born in the West Indies to play for England (ninth if you count that renowned Trinidadian Lord Harris). He took 159 international wickets over eight years, in 1993 scored a Test hundred in Madras (now Chennai) and opened the bowling in the last England team to reach a World Cup final, before Archer’s lot did the same two years ago.
