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- Updated: October 9, 2016
Mark Wood has been ruled out of England’s tour to India after the discovery that he bowled at the tail end of the English domestic season with a broken ankle.
It all means that Wood faces a third ankle operation within a year and, however optimistic the prognosis, it is bound to cast doubts on his resilience and invite concerns about his career both at county and England level.
Wood has already been ruled out of the one-day and Test series in Bangladesh and his hopes of recovering in time for the India tour were banished when it was discovered that he fractured a bone in his left ankle when bowling in a Specsavers County Championship match against Surrey in September.
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