Mark Wood has warned lightning will strike twice at Old Trafford after promising to send down another barrage of thunderbolts as ordered by skipper Ben Stokes.
Wood might have been kept on ice until the third do-or-die Test at Headingley, but he has broken this Ashes series wide open with his player-of-the-match intervention. He sent down the quickest over recorded in Test cricket on English soil on Thursday and it rocked the Aussie lineup top to bottom.
And the Durham dynamo revealed that it was a request from his great mate Stokes that got him in the zone and he will be ready for more of the same next week. “Stokesy just asked ‘are you ready? Are you ready to bowl some thunderbolts?’ I said yes, and that was it,” said Wood.
