![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mark-wood-was-on-all-fours-barking-like-a-dog-before-record-breaking-headingley-spell/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_GettyImages-1519684354.jpg&description=England bowler Ollie Robinson has given insight into Mark Wood's hilarious pre-match antics before his stunning spell in the third Ashes Test How do you prepare to bowl one of the fastest spells in the history of Test cricket? Well. if you're Mark Wood it's by pretending to be a dog of course. Wood was named player of the match for his exploits in the third Ashes Test as England beat Australia by three wickets to keep the series alive. And his spell in Australia's first innings, which saw him pick up 5-34 in what was a stunning display of fast bowling particularly given he had not played cricket in almost three months. His opening spell had an average speed of 90.4mph, the fastest by an Englishman in a home Test, while his very first over was the quickest ever recorded at Headingley with Wood clocking speeds of 91, 93, 95, 93, 94 and 93mph. He then followed that up with a 96.5mph thunderbolt in his second over and he believes he can get even faster. And Wood's teammate Ollie Robinson has revealed the England quick was "on all-fours barking on the changing room floor" pretending to be a dog just ten minutes before the game started. "Woody's just got this mad, unique energy. There's no one else like him," Robinson said in his latest Wisden column. "You think he's drunk half the time yet he doesn't touch a drop. Bear in mind this is a bloke who, 10 minutes before we went out, literally at 10:50am, was on all-fours barking on the changing room floor, going, 'There's a dog in the dressing room. There's a dog in here, lads…'" Robinson also branded Wood's spell "unbelievable bowling", admitting it was the "fastest thing I've ever seen". He added: "I've never seen a spell like Woody's on that first morning. "I was at mid-off to start with, and first few balls, I thought, 'Jeez, that looks pretty quick…' He carried on through the over, finished the job, and then someone ran past me from slip and said that they were standing past my bowling mark, which is 22-and-a-half metres){kind=link}
England bowler Ollie Robinson has given insight into Mark Wood’s hilarious pre-match antics before his stunning spell in the third Ashes Test
How do you prepare to bowl one of the fastest spells in the history of Test cricket? Well. if you’re Mark Wood it’s by pretending to be a dog of course.
Wood was named player of the match for his exploits in the third Ashes Test as England beat Australia by three wickets to keep the series alive. And his spell in Australia’s first innings, which saw him pick up 5-34 in what was a stunning display of fast bowling particularly given he had not played cricket in almost three months.
His opening spell had an average speed of 90.4mph, the fastest by an Englishman in a home Test, while his very first over was the quickest ever recorded at Headingley with Wood clocking speeds of 91, 93, 95, 93, 94 and 93mph. He then followed that up with a 96.5mph thunderbolt in his second over and he believes he can get even faster.
And Wood’s teammate Ollie Robinson has revealed the England quick was “on all-fours barking on the changing room floor” pretending to be a dog just ten minutes before the game started. “Woody’s just got this mad, unique energy. There’s no one else like him,” Robinson said in his latest Wisden column.