Struggle in England team?: Archer did not come to celebrate Bashir’s wicket, Captain Stokes showed class

By Samira Vishwas On Jun 28, 2026

Along with cricket, an interesting incident was also seen in the third Test being played between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge. England captain Ben Stokes seemed angry with the attitude of his fast bowler Joffra Archer and he called him on the field itself to celebrate the wicket with the team. The video of this incident is going viral on social media.

This matter is of the 114th over of New Zealand’s first innings. Spinner Shoaib Bashir was caught by Nathan Smith on his own ball. As soon as the wicket was taken, the England players gathered together to celebrate, but Joffra Archer did not reach there. When Captain Stokes saw this, he immediately gestured to Archer posted at the boundary and asked him to join the wicket celebration with the team.

🚨Ben Stokes had some words for Jofra Archer after the pacer initially didn’t join in the celebrations following Shoaib Bashir’s caught and bowled. Bashir had dropped a catch off Archer’s bowling the over before pic.twitter.com/7FiKNzQdKV
— SheR•ALI (@Sher__Ali) June 27, 2026

However, many people on social media also gave another reason for this incident. In fact, just one over before this, Shoaib Bashir had dropped a very easy catch of Tom Blundell on Archer’s ball. In such a situation, some fans believed that Archer was disappointed by the same thing and hence he did not celebrate the wicket.

This 23 second clip sums up Jofra Archer as a cricketer.
Has the heart of a pea and filled with arrogance.
Good on Ben Stokes for calling him out and asking to celebrate the wicket with his teammates. Ben Stokes setting the right example as a captain and cricketer.
Cricket is a team… pic.twitter.com/cX9rJg9lX3
— Troll cricket unlimitedd (@TUnlimitedd) June 27, 2026

Talking about the match, New Zealand won the toss and batted first and scored 438 runs. The team got a strong start by captain Tom Latham and Devon Conway. Both of them made a brilliant partnership of 317 runs for the first wicket. Latham scored 151 runs in 214 balls, while Conway played a brilliant inning of 157 runs in 224 balls.

Captain Ben Stokes was the most successful bowler for England. He took 4 wickets for 70 runs. Jofra Archer took 2 wickets, while Shoaib Bashir also got 2 wickets.

This match became memorable for Stokes for another reason. He completed 250 wickets in Test cricket and became only the second player in the world to score more than 7,000 runs. Before him, this feat was achieved only by South Africa’s legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis.

Stokes has now scored 7,243 runs and 250 wickets in his name in 122 Test matches. With this, he also achieved the distinction of becoming England’s ninth most successful bowler in Test cricket, leaving behind Matthew Hoggard (248 wickets). The match is currently at an exciting stage and New Zealand has taken a significant lead on the basis of the first innings.