{"id":254097,"date":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254097\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:56:11","slug":"wood-backs-englands-quiet-confidence-ahead-of-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254097\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood backs England&#8217;s &#8216;quiet confidence&#8217; ahead of Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood\u2019s return comes after a challenging six-month rehabilitation period following knee surgery. Wood\u2019s return adds the firepower to a squad eager to make a statement Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>He last featured in the Ashes during England\u2019s 2021-22 tour, where he played four of the five Tests and finished with 17 wickets, including a career-best 6 for 37 in Hobart.<\/p>\n<p>As Wood continues to build up his fitness, England\u2019s upcoming warm-up match next week will give him a chance to test his match fitness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m at 100%,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very hard to train 100% all of the time. I&#8217;ve been off my full run-up and stuff, and I&#8217;ve been trying to just up the intensity as I go along. I&#8217;m sure in the practice game coming up, I can try and up it a little bit more again and gradually get ready for that first game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood\u2019s return comes after a challenging six-month rehabilitation period following knee surgery. Wood\u2019s return adds the firepower to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,67817,67827,67823,67826,67824,16326,67825,67822,67828,67834,67833,67814,6518,67832,67816,67815,67810,67820,67821,67830,101,67829,67831,67819,67812,67818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-254097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}