Speed demon Mark Wood made his long awaited England return and immediately turned up the heat all the way to 97 on the Pakistani batsmen.
That is 97 miles per hour, too hot to handle for most batters as they try to react in the blink of an eye, only to find that they are still too late on the ball. Wood’s extreme pace gave England the weapon they had been badly missing the night before when they failed to take a single wicket.
This time Wood grabbed three of his own as England triumphed by 63 runs, comfortably defending their whopping total of 221-3 to take a 2-1 lead in the seven match series. It was 22 more runs than they made in the second match courtesy of a brilliant innings of 81 not out from Harry Brook that would have claimed all the headlines until Wood charged into the game.
