Jofra ruled out for the rest of the year

The England and Wales Cricket Board has this afternoon confirmed that Jofra underwent further scans on his injured right elbow last week. The scans revealed that he has suffered a recurrence of a stress fracture of his right elbow. 

In response to these findings, he has been ruled out for the rest of the year and will miss the remainder of the County season along with the current LV= Insurance Test series against India, the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021 and the Ashes series in Australia. 

The 26-year-old, who had an operation in May to remove a bone fragment from his elbow, returned to play last month. As part of his return-to-bowling programme, he became aware of increasing discomfort in his elbow during matches in the Vitality Blast and the 50-over friendly against Oxfordshire. The operation is not related to the stress fracture that sidelined him previously. 

He will now spend time on an extended break from cricket before returning for a medical review in early autumn.