chris wood Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
chris wood is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Christopher Philip Wood
Born
June 27, 1990, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Age
33 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Medium fast
Playing Role
Bowler
Teams he has played for:
- England Under-19s
- Hampshire
- Hampshire 2nd XI
- London Spirit (Men)
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Woody as he is known at Hampshire has come through their youth system and started his career playing the shorter formats of the game. In 2010, injury to regular squad members gave Wood his first taste of T20 cricket and was soon playing List A cricket. During that season, Wood was the highest wicket-taker for Hampshire in the One-Day format and his 20 wickets in T20s was the second best ever for Hampshire. He played a vital role in the team's success that year and in the years to come. In fact, since making his debut for Hampshire, Wood has been part of five Finals Day.
The next year saw Wood cementing his place in the four-day side because of his performances in the shorter forms - he was the leading wicket-taker in the One-Day competition and soon becoming the leading man of Hampshire's bowling attack.
Wood is also a handy lower-order batsman and Leicestershire were a witness to that as he scored his maiden first-class hundred against them in 2012. Though Hampshire lost that game, Wood's stakes only grew higher. If his reputation had not skyrocketed by now it was soon to be as he held his nerve in both the One-Day and T20 final - defending targets in the last over and taking Hampshire over the line.
Injuries hit Wood during the 2013 season and followed him into the next season. He, however, fought back and returned towards the end of the 2014 campaign, claiming 15 wickets in four Championship games. Another good year in white-ball cricket followed in 2015 as Wood topped Hampshire's T20 averages while also picking up 10 wickets in the One-Day format. He had also signed a two-year contract extension before the start of the season.
A persistent knee injury which had taken its toll on Wood before reappeared in 2016 and he had to undergo surgery after a game against Middlesex at the start of the season. That eventually ruled him out for the rest of the year.
Hampshire's Strength and Conditioning coach, Nick Karamouzis, helped Wood recover from the knee surgery. After performing for the Second XI, Wood was back soon in the first team and played a key role in Hampshire reaching yet another Finals Day.
By Akshay Maanay
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Chris Wood's career story rarely strays from a detailed knowledge of Birmingham hotels. In his first season, he was a member of the Hampshire side that won England's T20 tournament in 2010, but since then Hampshire have endured four semi-final defeats which for Wood has meant inside knowledge of more hotels than he would wish as Hampshire ring the changes in an attempt to end the curse.
Wood, a skilful left-arm seamer, remains one of the most talented young bowlers on Hampshire's books, but his progress has twice been slowed by knee surgery which has wrecked two summers. In 2017, he played only Twenty20 because of his frailty, winning a place on Finals Day because of Reece Topley's own injury woes,
Nevertheless, he has earned a reputation as a skilful bowler in one-day cricket and twice in 2012, in the T20 final against Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank 40 final with Warwickshire, held his nerve in the final over to secure his side the trophy.
Born in Basingstoke, Wood came up through the Hampshire age groups and was selected for England Under-19s to tour South Africa. In 2010, he got his break in county cricket and returned 20 wickets as Hampshire lifted their first T20 title. From the outset, he was a key part of the attack in the shortest format, with Hampshire reaching Finals Day in each of his first five seasons at the county. In 40-over cricket he has also performed well, averaging 23.92 in his first season and taking 18 scalps en route to Lord's success in 2012.
As for the Championship, he enjoyed healthy campaigns in 2011 and 2012, where he also made a rapid maiden first-class century at Grace Road. Having been reduced to 146 for 9 after being set 441 to win at Grace Road, Hampshire retorted with a swashbuckling last-wicket stand of 168 between Wood and David Balcombe before Leicestershire secured victory.
A knee problem hindered his 2013 but a year later, following surgery, he returned to play the final four matches of Hampshire's Division Two-winning campaign, took 15 wickets 16.80, and signed a new deal through to 2016. Further knee surgery was again needed as injury wrecked his 2016 summer.
But he remains a canny new-ball and death bowler in short-form cricket, and was one of the first names on Hampshire's T20 teamsheet in 2018 and 2019, though appearances in first-class cricket grew increasingly sparse.
ESPNcricinfo staff