• Third Test, day 2: England 277 & 19-0; West Indies 154
• Mark Wood takes Test-best five for 41
The half an hour before tea produced one of those “Oh, my!” moments. During that time Mark Wood bowled a succession of deliveries in excess of 90mph, including the fastest ball of the series at 94.8mph. In 19 balls he took the wickets of three startled West Indies batsmen and transformed the match.
In the slip cordon, where Joe Root resides, and on the England balcony, where the coaches were looking on spellbound and jubilant, they must have been thinking “Oh, my!”, an exclamation quickly followed by “What if we had let Wood loose on them earlier in the series?”
Written by Vic Marks at the Darren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/10/west-indies-england-third-test-day-two-match-report-mark-wood under the title “Mark Wood’s pace puts England in control against West Indies”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
