How Jofra Archer’s Twitter account predicted the key moments of Australia’s World Cup semi-final defeat

As Australia’s car crash of a defeat to England unfolded, social media users began to notice that Jofra Archer’s Twitter account had long since identified the decisive moments of the match.

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England pace bowler Jofra Archer has been dubbed an online ‘Jofradamus’ after his back catalogue of short, pithy tweets seemed to speak directly to key moments in Australia’s World Cup semi-final humiliation at the hands of England.

Archer was drafted in to the England squad in the weeks leading in to the tournament after the Barbados-born quick became eligible for selection at the last moment.

England's Jofra Archer took the vital wickets of Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell.

His raw pace and clever variations, witnessed by an Australian audience in the last two years of the Big Bash, has done much to propel England to their first World Cup final since 1992.

But social media users were as impressed with his seemingly prescient calls from the past as the horror show unfolded at Edgbaston.

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Archer got England off to the start they had dreamt of after Australia won the toss and elected to bat, removing Aussie skipper Aaron Finch for a golden duck, trapping him plumb lbw.

Finch goes

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) May 10, 2014

As Australia battled to get back in to the match, it was an Archer bouncer that struck Alex Carey on the helmet, leaving the wicketkeeper-batsman with a bloody face and needing medical attention.

That hit he helmet soo hard

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) March 1, 2015

Carey showed guts to battle on, forging a partnership with Steve Smith that briefly threatened to get Australia back in to it.

But once he holed out trying to put Adil Rashid in the stands the task became enormous for Finch’s men.

Alex Carey was struck by a bouncer from Archer and required medical treatment thereafter.

Carey needed a replacement lid after the fierce delivery had battered his original one.

Something Archer also had the perfect tweet for from back in the day.

All batsmen buy 2 helmets cause went we meet they will be in use ..

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) March 5, 2013

Archer’s second victim was Glenn Maxwell, who he softened up with a series of short deliveries before surprising him with a knuckle ball that drew an error and presented a simple catch for England captain Eoin Morgan.

Maxwell why?

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) September 18, 2014

And the eerie ability to predict the future didn’t stop once England started their run chase.

Openers Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow put on a century stand to emphatically take the match away from Australia.

Roy blew up when he was controversially given out, with England having burned their review by that point.

But the damage from Roy’s bat had been done by then regardless, with Archer having a tweet for that, too.

Jason boy

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) April 22, 2015

And so it is England rather than Australia who will travel to the home of cricket for a World Cup final meeting with New Zealand on Sunday.

An outcome that ensures there will be a first time winner this year. At a venue that Archer seems — or seemed? — keen to get to.

Want to go to lords

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) May 29, 2014

Originally published as How Jofra Archer’s Twitter account predicted the key moments of Australia’s World Cup semi-final defeat