Personal Life

Mark was born in Ashington, United Kingdom. His father’s name is Derek Wood. There is not much information available about his past. He is a huge fan Steve Harmison, Mark Adored Steve for his fast bowling and he followed the footstep of his inspiration. Now, he is England’s fastest bowler reaching the speed of 97 MPH. In International cricket, he wears 33 no. T-shirt.

Career

Domestic:

In 2008, Mark made his debut in domestic cricket. He played for Northumberland. In his county cricket career, he was part of team winning Minor Counties Championship and 3 MCCA Knockout Championship. In 2011, He was part of Durham and played first class cricket.  He then got selected in List A teams. He has played against Sri Lanka and Scotland in his List A career.

International:

In 2015, Mark got selected in international test squad for England against West Indies and Ireland. But unfortunately, he didn’t get chance to play. On 8th May 2015, Mark made his first international debut against Ireland. In his first match, he took one wicket. The match was stopped due to rain.

In the same year, Mark made his test debut against New Zealand. In the first match Mark, took 4 wickets and helped England to lead the series 1-0. In second match, England lost but Mark was able to take 5 wickets and score 19 runs. Mark’s outstanding bowling in the series helped England to win the series by 3-1.  He made his T20 Debut in same tour, England won the match and Mark got 3 wickets and gave just 26 runs.

Mark has also got opportunity to play Ashes in the year 2015. England won the Ashes series by 3-2. In the series, Wood took 10 wickets in 4 matches. He was asked to sit for 3rd test due to injury. Mark was selected in the ODI series against Australia, but due to poor performance in two matches he was ruled out in 3rd one.

Mark in 2015, played against Pakistan in two test matches and was able to get 6 wickets in the series. He faced an ankle injury and was not selected for England’s tour of Sri Lanka and also was not able to play starting games against Pakistan. In 2016, he made his return against for ODI matches, out of five Mark played four matches against Pakistan. He got 7 wickets in the series and helped England to win the series by 4-1.

Mark has played 8 test matches and his personal best figure is 3/39 in an inning. In ODI he has played 11 matches and has best of 3/46. Also, in T20 international he got 3/26 against the Kiwis. Mark is also available on social networking sites like Instagram, Wiki and Twitter. He is in Instagram by name @mawood33 and has 16.5Kfollowers. Mark has shared his training photos in Instagram.