India, April 10 -- Eat, sleep, train, send wickets tumbling, repeat - Jofra Archer seems to have finally hit his stride. Five wickets in this IPL, three of them comprehensively bowled, all well above the 140 kph mark, with a decent economy too - you couldn't have asked for a better comeback.

There is more to Archer of course, tantalisingly in red-ball cricket. But so few and far between have been the Test teasers that to imagine Archer in full tilt, one has to literally go back to Ahmedabad, 2021.

Which is where life probably came full circle for him on Wednesday, albeit in a totally different format. This wait in the IPL has been long, two years to be specific.

Longer if you don't want to include the 2023 season that finished even bef...