{"id":1032,"date":"2020-07-11T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T08:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=23102"},"modified":"2020-07-11T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T08:39:26","slug":"jofra-archer-and-tino-best-engage-in-a-war-of-words-as-the-latter-questions-his-england-test-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/jofra-archer-and-tino-best-engage-in-a-war-of-words-as-the-latter-questions-his-england-test-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Jofra Archer and Tino Best engage in a war of words as the latter questions his England test selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-West Indies pacer Tino Best and England pacer Jofra Archer engaged in a verbal war on Twitter after the former raised questions over the latter\u2019s inclusion in England playing XI ahead of seasoned campaigner Stuart Broad.\u00a0England are playing West Indies in the first Test of the iconic three-match series which also marks the return of international cricket post the COVID-19 induced lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Tino Best took to Twitter and criticized Jofra Archer\u2019s bowling stating that he cannot understand how the lanky\u00a0pacer was picked ahead of veteran Stuart Broad. Defending Stuart Broad who expressed his disappointment at\u00a0being dropped, Tino Best said that Jofra Archer, who was selected because of his speed, wasn\u2019t even generating any significant pace.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinobest\/status\/1281589693398884353?s=20<\/p>\n<p>Archer, who was not happy with this comment, gave a rapid rebuttal to the former cricketer, questioning how he was not a coach yet with all this knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The war of words didn\u2019t end there was Tino Best further took shots at Jofra Archer. In another tweet, Best told Archer that he didn\u2019t need to target him. Best added that Archer hadn\u2019t bowled quick since Ashes. He also asked him to take some rest and be ready for England\u2019s thrashing at the hands of West Indies in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinobest\/status\/1281703741327052800?s=20<\/p>\n<p>To this, Jofra Archer replied, \u201cyou must live a miserable life.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You must live a miserable life<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JofraArcher\/status\/1281692960304881664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, soon after Tino took a u-turn and ended this battle of words. He went on to add that he had pure admiration for Jofra while continuing to apologise to the english pacer. He added that he wanted Jofra to bowl with an intense pace like he used to, in order to get the cricketing community excited again. Finally, he ended the tweet by asking people who were fueling the verbal fight to stop as this wasn\u2019t any fight.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinobest\/status\/1281796713460707333?s=20<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinobest\/status\/1281797454619443200?s=20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jofra Archer and Tino Best engaged in a heated conversation on twitter regarding Archer\u2019s selection over seasoned pacer, Broad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}