Jofra Archer and the magic in his 'effortless pace'
For a moment, visualise a fast bowler with a 15-paced approach bowling at blinding speed. The mind just doesn't seem to accept that a quick bowler can achieve such a perfect symmetry with a short run-up. Jofra Chioke Archer . The Barbados-born, England cricketer is one of those very few quick bowlers who can generate scorching pace from a relatively short run-up. 'Easy pace'. Not exactly the words that are synonymous with the kind of sheer effort of a fast bowler pounding deliveries at 90mph. Archer can befuddle the batsman with his deceptive pace, and for the dismissal to be captured via YouTube videos and memes. Just ask Daniel Bell-Drummond of Kent, who was cleaned up by prodigious swing at pace in 2017. The way the ball flew after shattering Soumya Sarkar's timber, and smashed into the boundary hoardings in the 2019 World Cup. Or for the matter his epoch-making spell at Steven Smith at Lord's in the 2019 Ashes. In the second innings of the Southampton Test a