Britain's bowling concerns mounted on an intense third day of the principal Test in Antigua, as Mark Wood was everything except controlled out of the assault for the rest of West Indies' first innings subsequent to griping of touchiness in quite a while right elbow.
Wood, England's quickest bowler and the man on whom their expectations of forward leaps could have been nailed to a languid surface at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, had been a late appearance toward the beginning of the day meeting subsequent to getting tying on the injury.
He bowled four overs with the old ball preceding lunch, surrendering consecutive limits from short balls as West Indies' centurion, Nkrumah Bonner, exploited his overall absence of speed - with his normal speed plunging from 89mph on day two to 85mph - then, at that point, withdrew from the field for the remainder of the day after only one more done with the new ball, in which Bonner sent off him over fine leg for the main six of his nine-hour innings.
The idea of Wood's physical issue will be a specific concern for England, considering that it was elbow touchiness - later analyzed as a pressure crack - that prompted England's other 90mph initiate, Jofra Archer, to go through two tasks in 2021, the second is probably going to keep him down and out at minimum until May.
After a physical issue tormented start to his Test profession, remembering three lower leg tasks for the space of a year in 2016, Wood has partaken in a supported run of wellness lately - somewhat credited to his choice to return to a more drawn out, smoother pursue up a runner's style approach in his initial years. He was England's stand-apart bowler in a generally horrid Ashes series, guaranteeing 17 wickets at 26.64 in four Tests, making this the most active winter of his 26-Test vocation.
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