England vs Australia, Mark Wood Sets New Record At Headingley Test With Ball: On the first day of the Headingley Test match between England and Australia, the magic of the speed of the balls of English fast bowler Mark Wood was seen. After the defeat in the first 2 Test matches, England decided to make 3 changes in their team for the third Test of the series. In this, Mark Wood was included in the team in place of James Anderson. Wood is counted among the fastest bowlers of the present time. Amazing Wood showed his speed from his very first over in which he threw the ball at a speed of 90 miles per hour.
The answer to Mark Wood’s fast balls was not visible to the batsmen of the Kangaroo team on the Headingley pitch. Wood made his first victim Australian opening batsman Usman Khawaja. To whom Wood scattered his stumps while throwing the ball at a speed of 152 kilometers per hour.
Wood’s bowling played a very important role in wrapping up the Australian innings on the score of 263 on the first day. Apart from Khawaja, Wood also made Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Todd Murphy his victims. Mark Wood took 5 wickets in his 11.4 overs bowling giving just 34 runs.
So fast, Pat Cummins didn’t even play a shot
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— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 6, 2023
Fastest over bowled at Headingley
The speed of Mark Wood’s balls in the Headingley Test can be gauged from the fact that he bowled balls at a speed of more than 90 miles per hour in the very first over. The speed of the balls in Wood’s first over was 91, 93, 95, 93, 94 and 93 miles per hour. In this way, Wood managed to bowl the fastest over at Headingley so far.
Apart from this, after the year 2006 played in England in the Ashes, the average speed of balls in Wood’s first spell was the second fastest. Wood is also at number one in this case, when he bowled balls with an average speed of 93.41 miles per hour during one of his spells in the Lord’s Test match in the year 2021. At the same time, the average speed of his first spell in this Test was 92.9 miles per hour.
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