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Mumbai: Tearaway England pace bowler Jofra Archer is looking at a return to competitive cricket during the ICC T20 World Cup later this year, as the strike bowler said on Friday that he had fully recovered from a second elbow surgery and needs some "game time" to be back in peak fitness. Archer -- who was bought by five-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians for a whopping Rs eight crore during the mega auction but will not play this season for the franchise as he continues his rehabilitation from the elbow surgery -- was forced to miss the last T20 World Cup in the UAE due to an elbow injury, and England -- without the spearhead of their attack -- failed to reach the final as they were beaten by New Zealand in the semifinal. After missing the entire IPL 2022 season, he will also likely return to action for the embattled Mumbai Indians -- who are down in the dumps -- next year. But before that, the world's second-ranked T20I Men's team may have their leading quick bowler back for the next T20 World Cup in Australia later this year, with Archer announcing that he is set to make a comeback for his county side Sussex in England's T20 Blast later this month. The 27-year-old has undergone two surgeries in the last 12 months on an elbow injury that has kept him out of all international and franchise cricket. And he says that he now feels well on the road to recovery. "After my first operation last May, my right elbow felt no different at all," Archer said in his column for the Daily Mail. "Obviously, I wasn't going to fully know whether it had been successful until I started bowling, but what I can say is that things immediately felt different after my second one in December. Now, nearly five months down the line, it' ...