Mark Wood thought about giving up Tests because of ongoing injury issues. Wood batted superbly during the second innings of the Multan Test, and the opposing hitters were alarmed by his rapid pace.
In Multan, where they played Pakistan’s hosts, England won the second Test, completing a remarkable series win. One of the top bowlers in the second Test was Mark Wood, but the lightning-quick speedster admitted he was considering ending his Test career following a string of injuries earlier this year.
The Pakistani hitters were rattled by Mark Wood’s lightning-quick speed during the second innings of the Multan Test. With the game slipping away from the visitors, Wood’s 4/65 featured the pivotal wickets of Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Nawaz.
Wood dominated the T20 World Cup in Australia this year, relishing in the country’s quick surfaces. Despite suffering an elbow injury nine months before in a Test against the Windies, he participated in his debut Test in Multan. When questioned about his immediate plans for Test cricket following the elbow injury, the 32-year-old said he was thinking about giving up red-ball cricket for the time being.
“Well, in fact, yes. I wondered if I’d go white-ball only. At some my point my body will say that it’s the way to go but I didn’t prepare for white-ball, I prepared for all cricket. I desperately wanted to experience all this, with Stokesy and Brendon, so I’m pleased I’ve stuck with it. And I’m pleased we won here. I’d have been gutted if we’d won, I’d come in, and we’d lost. They’d have been pointing fingers at me!”
Wood said.
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Stokesy is much more mature today, and he speaks so well: Wood, Mark
After joining the Durham academy as teenagers, Mark Wood grew up playing cricket alongside current Test skipper Ben Stokes. The right-arm pacer remarked on the changes he has noticed in Stokes in the previous few months since taking over as Test captain. England have won eight of their nine Tests since Stokes’ appointment as captain, and they are playing a daring brand of cricket under his guidance.
“Stokesy now is much more mature. He speaks so well – he’s always had a fantastic cricket brain. But the way he comes across, the way he conducts himself, and the messages that he gives, he’s just so much more rounded than when we were growing up. He was this alpha guy who would whack it, and never back down. He’s still got all that, but he’s got other sides to him now. He’ll put an arm around people, and express what he means really articulately,”
Wood added.