Jofra Archer predicted the entire World Cup

Hunain Khalid

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If you have lost fingernails worrying about results this World Cup, you needn't have. You could have just scrolled through Jofra Archer's Twitter feed from between 2013 and 2016 and you would have known everything about the tournament from there. A few committed accounts on Twitter kicked it off, allow us to take it just that little bit further.

https://twitter.com/x/status/316231490918821888
Archer knew Ben Stokes would start the World Cup with an all-round performance.

https://twitter.com/x/status/601373385638174721 He knew Andre Russell would amp up the pace, but that it might cost him his fitness.

https://twitter.com/x/status/560447896286662656
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He guessed that South Africa would struggle, and that there would be news that AB de Villiers had offered to return.

https://twitter.com/x/status/440508819169243136
https://twitter.com/x/status/524413991972794368
He knew two big talking points would be the bails not coming off and the rain.

https://twitter.com/x/status/292470267870056450
https://twitter.com/x/status/600626868245688323
Somehow, he even had early insights into David Warner's plans to adopt a more steady approach.

https://twitter.com/x/status/542181047329640448
He also wanted to let his captain know well in advance that record-breaking six-hitting against Afghanistan was something he dug.

https://twitter.com/x/status/323489371015749634
We're really not sure how he knew Liton Das was going to make a big impact in his first World Cup match all the way back in 2013, when Liton hadn't even made his List A debut.

https://twitter.com/x/status/555395827045527552
Of course he knew Carlos Brathwaite was going to make people remember his name again.

But how did he predict the emergence of Shaheen Afridi when the guy was just 15?

https://twitter.com/x/status/561370558252990464
Moeen being left out for a few games, only to get a chance, play a really rash shot and then be sacrificed for a seamer again - a surprise to everyone? Not to Archer, who knew this in February 2014.

https://twitter.com/x/status/431408452737728512
https://twitter.com/x/status/558481484173303808
He probably should have done more to avoid England's loss to Sri Lanka, though, since he knew it was going to happen.

https://twitter.com/x/status/468031234153930753
https://twitter.com/x/status/542700259974348801 And maybe he could have warned Stokes about that Mitchell Starc yorker

https://twitter.com/x/status/638346032888348672 Never mind, he knew Jonny Bairstow was going to make everything all right in the last two games.

https://twitter.com/x/status/528911649529663488
Did you not know about Nicholas Pooran?

https://twitter.com/x/status/434259707088633856
Things started getting really spooky around the semis, as it emerged Archer had pretty much live tweeted these in his youth. Here's a quick recap of the India-New Zealand game:

https://twitter.com/x/status/581570048172515330
https://twitter.com/x/status/470578149215199232
https://twitter.com/x/status/545069394163163136
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https://twitter.com/x/status/465141399806312448
https://twitter.com/x/status/557383177254486017
https://twitter.com/x/status/571842668734464000
https://twitter.com/x/status/625408046865469440
https://twitter.com/x/status/481861881238667264
https://twitter.com/x/status/308928048772812800
Archer wasn't even born the last time England made the World Cup final, in 1992. He knew they'd make it in 2019, though.

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