Speedster Jofra Archer has been ruled out of England’s one-day international series against West Indies with a right thumb injury.

Archer will miss the series, which starts on 29 May, having sustained the injury while with Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.

The ECB, in a statement released on Wednesday, said the Barbados-born Archer will be “reassessed over the next fortnight to determine when he may return to action.”

The 30-year-old had been left out of the squad for the following three-match T20 series in order to play for England Lions against India A.

Those four-day matches take place from May 30 and June 6 so Archer is set to miss at least the first of those games, which would have been his first red-ball cricket in four years.

He has been hampered with back and elbow injuries since he last played Test cricket for England in February 2021.

“It is a couple of weeks – he’s not going to be far off bowling,” England’s Director of Cricket Rob Key told Sky Sports.

“We wanted to get four-day bowling in him. He’ll probably miss the Lions game we had him down to play but then he’ll probably play Championship cricket for Sussex. We’ll get some red-ball bowling into him and then he’ll be ready – we thought around the second Test [against India] but it may be the third Test now. We’ll wait and see but it is nothing too serious.”

Lancashire’s left-arm seamer, Luke Wood, has replaced Archer in the ODI squad, having already been part of the T20 group.