Taking the brand new ball doesn't precisely come naturally to the 34-year-old, both: this was simply the sixth time he had opened the bowling in a Test innings, half of these because the begin of this tour. But again in tandem at the moment with James Anderson, Wood was let out; extra proof — to go together with Jasprit Bumrah’s success throughout the opening fortnight — {that a} two-seam ploy may need been the best way to go prior to now, for all England’s reliance on spin has hardly led them too far astray.