England's Wood Set To Miss Second Ashes Test

England accelerated bowler Mark Wood is group to miss nan important 2nd Ashes Test successful Brisbane because of concerns complete his near knee.

Wood only returned from a nine-month absence pursuing room connected nan aforesaid near knee successful England's first-Test conclusion successful Perth past week.

The 35-year-old bowled 11 overs successful nan lucifer arsenic England were beaten by Australia wrong 2 days - nan first two-day Ashes Test successful 104 years.

Wood missed England's first training convention successful Brisbane connected Saturday morning, nan only 1 of nan 13 players successful Queensland not to beryllium coming astatine Allan Border Field.

Josh Tongue would beryllium nan astir apt campaigner to return Wood's spot successful nan England XI for nan 2nd Test, a day-night lucifer astatine nan Gabba connected Thursday.

Tongue is 1 of 3 England players - alongside chap seamer Matthew Potts and batter Jacob Bethell - who person been sent to play for England Lions against nan Prime Minister's XI successful Canberra this weekend.

A further wounded setback for Wood is simply a immense rustle to nan Durham man and England. It could moreover raise questions astir his world future.

One of nan fastest bowlers to ever play for England, Wood has a chequered wounded history. Before Perth he had not played a Test for 15 months, firstly because of an elbow problem, past nan room connected his near knee.

When he made his on-field comeback anterior to nan first Test, against England Lions successful an Ashes warm-up match, Wood managed 8 overs earlier suffering tightness successful his near hamstring.

Scans cleared him of immoderate interest successful nan hamstring and he was passed fresh to play successful Perth, wherever he had lucifer figures of 0-44.

Wood's readiness helped England execute a long-standing scheme to unleash precocious gait connected Australia successful this Ashes.

By fielding a five-man gait onslaught astatine Perth Stadium, England recorded their fastest corporate time of bowling successful Test cricket connected nan opening time of nan series.

But England's speeds dropped connected time two, arsenic Australia raced to an eight-wicket triumph successful their 2nd innings.

Speaking anterior to nan news of Wood's injury, erstwhile Australia accelerated bowler Jason Gillespie said he was "concerned astir nan robustness" of England's attack.

"Do they person capable activity successful nan slope to beryllium fresh and beardown capable to vessel consistently precocious gait crossed nan people of a full lucifer and past backmost it up successful consequent matches?" Gillespie told Stumped connected BBC World Service.

"That is nan large mobility people for me."

Wood's absence would beryllium keenly felt by England successful nan day-night conditions astatine nan Gabba - a crushed wherever they person not won since 1986.

England person a mediocre grounds successful floodlit Tests, having won only 2 of their erstwhile seven, including 3 defeats successful Australia.

Australia person won 13 of their 14 day-night matches and, successful Mitchell Starc, person nan champion pink-ball bowler successful nan world.

The pinkish shot does not behave otherwise to its reddish counterpart, but tin beryllium harder to spot nether lights.

Part of Starc's occurrence successful pink-ball matches is nan number of deliveries he bowls complete 87mph and Wood, England's fastest option, took 9 wickets erstwhile he past played a day-night Test against Australia successful Hobart successful 2022.

Speaking connected nan For The Love of Cricket podcast, erstwhile England seamer Stuart Broad said: "There's thing astir nan pinkish ball, you conscionable can't prime it up rather arsenic well. You get nary clues arsenic well, truthful nan seam is achromatic against nan pinkish background, whereas pinch a reddish shot and achromatic seam you mightiness spot Mitchell Starc's in-swinger coming backmost into nan stumps aliases scrambling around.

"It's conscionable nan lights are reflecting disconnected nan pinkish shot truthful it's almost for illustration a large satellite coming flying towards you.

"It intends you're conscionable judging it from nan activity disconnected nan aboveground aliases reference disconnected nan activity of nan ball, but astatine specified gait it's rather difficult to do."