I feel over the next few years we are in for a great ride watching him bowl in Test cricket. The one thing he may have to work out is that bowling short intimidates people but it generally does not bring you a lot of wickets. It might be that over time someone has to remind Archer that the majority of balls need to be the top of off stump, aiming to get the nicks and lbws. Express man: Jofra Archer looks up at Steve Smith before felling the Australian later on day four with a bouncer. Credit:AP Those short balls are there to push them back and intimidate batsmen. But it is not a big deal because Archer has everything. If you said to Jofra "We want you to do a five-over burst pitching it up, or bowling away from the right-hander or back in to the left-handers", he would be able to do it. He has everything covered. Bowling like that, he will win Test matches all over the world for England. Just wait until he starts reverse swinging it at pace, then he will be unplayable. He looks as if he loves bowling long spells and to come on to bowl in any situation. That is gold dust for a captain. It felt like a different game was being played at the other end. Stuart Broad was bowling 85mph (136kmph) and swinging it with the new ball and it felt a bit flat. No disrespect to Stuart, who is a legend of our game and bowled well, but it was as though a completely different game was in town when Archer was bowling.

Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video In fact, the best person to ask about that spell is Broad, who was standing at mid-off. He will never have seen anything like that on an England field in his 129 Tests. Archer's spell to Smith proved to me that Test cricket is the best form of the game. I love white-ball cricket, with all its flamboyance and skill, but you do not get spells like that in Twenty20 and one-day cricket. The Australians had to show courage, patience and discipline. It is why Test cricket is the ultimate format because it tests every facet of your game.

Imagine being Peter Siddle strolling out there to bat when the greatest batsman of your era has been left poleaxed on the pitch by a bowler banging it in at over 90mph. Siddle is a No.9 for a reason and he is going out to bat facing 96mph (154.5kmph) with Smith wobbling off with the team doctor. I cannot think what must have been going through his mind. You just do not get that situation in any other form of the game. Loading It was cricket of the highest order and this ground was the perfect place to witness it. It is a genuine audience of cricket lovers and they realised the brutality, skill and hostility they were watching. It also took great courage and discipline from the batsmen. That was a lesson to England's players. Jason Roy is now finding out how Test cricket challenges you mentally. It asks questions about how you should play the game. The longest innings of Roy's career is three hours. I just hope that he is not going suddenly to start thinking he is a batsman who can bat for six hours because he is a Test cricketer.

He is a luxury opener who has been given a role to take the attack to the opposition. It looks to me as though he is already starting to overthink it and play in an unnatural way for him. Loading He is almost trying to be too technical. Many players down the years have come into Test cricket with lots of talent but all of a sudden they make a few low scores and think they have to play a different way. I believe if he continues in the side he has to be ultra-aggressive. I cannot see him surviving with that technique by playing any other way. Australia are in a position to win this game but if England bat with discipline they can make sure it is 1-0 going to Headingley. If they do that, and with Archer in the team, anything is possible.

Sunday Telegraph, London