Mark Wood

Mark Andrew Wood (born 11 January 1990) is an English cricketer who plays internationally for England in all formats.

In domestic cricket, he represents Durham, and has played for Chennai Super Kings and for Lucknow Super Giants (in current season) in the Indian Premier League.

Wood made his debut in county cricket for Northumberland in 2008 against Norfolk in the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

He played Minor counties cricket for Northumberland from 2008 to 2010, making 3 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 3 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.

In the 2011 season, he made his debut for Durham in a first-class match against Durham MCCU.

He followed this up by making his List A debut against Northamptonshire in the 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40.

He has since made a further first-class appearance against Sri Lanka A, and a further List A appearance against Scotland in the Clydesdale Bank 40.

Wood made his debut for the England Lions in their 2014 tour of Sri Lanka.

Wood made his Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) debuts in 2015.

In March 2015, Wood was named in the England Test squad for the tour of the West Indies.

However, he did not play in the series.

He made his One-Day International debut for England against Ireland on 8 May 2015.

The match was affected by rain and little cricket was played, although Wood did take his first international wicket.

He made his Test debut for England later the same month against New Zealand.

In the first Test Wood took figures of 3–93 in New Zealand's first innings.

He then took 1–47 in their second innings to help England win the match by 124 runs and go 1–0 up in the series.

In the following Test Wood continued to impress, taking figures of 2–62 in New Zealand's first innings.

He also made a useful 19 with the bat.

In New Zealand's second innings he took another three wickets, this time at the expense of 97 runs.

England lost the match by 199 runs and the series was drawn at 1–1.

Wood played in the third ODI against New Zealand, taking figures of 1–48.

In the next game he took figure of 1–49 to help England win by seven wickets and level the series at 2–2.

Although Wood did not take a wicket in the final game of the series, taking 0–70, England still won to win the series 3–1.

He made his Twenty20 International debut in the same series on 23 June 2015.

He finished with figures of 3–26 as England won by 56 runs.

Wood took 2–68 in Australia's first innings of the first Ashes Test and followed this up by taking 2–53 in their second innings to help England win the match by 169 runs.

In the second Test he only took one wicket in the Australian first innings, finishing with figures of 1–92 as England lost the match by 405 runs.

He was ruled out of the third Test through injury, but returned in the fourth Test, taking 1–13 in Australia's first innings.

In the second innings he took figures of 3–69 including the wicket that won the match for England, which meant they regained the Ashes.

England lost the final Test of the series, with Wood taking 1–59 in Australia first innings.

However, England won the series 3–2 to regain the Ashes.

Wood was selected for the first ODI against Australia, although he was expensive, finishing with figures of 1–72 as Australia won the game.

He kept his place for the next game, but he again proved expensive, this time finishing with 0–65 from his nine overs, although England went on to win the game by three wickets.

After being dropped from the side for the next two games, he returned for the final ODI and took figures of 1–25, although a poor batting performance from England meant they lost the game and the series 3–2.

On 28 January 2018, Wood was bought by Chennai Super Kings for INR 1.5 crores (~£160,000) for the 2018 IPL season.

In February 2022, he was bought by the Lucknow Super Giants in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament.

However, he was ruled out of the tournament due to an elbow injury.

In April 2022, he was bought by the London Spirit for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

He was part of the England teams that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.

Wood plays as a right-handed fast bowler, and is currently one of the fastest bowlers in the world, with an average Test pace of 89 mph since 2020.