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Wood required 2 elbow operations during the summer| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground Date: 13 November Time: 08:00 GMT |
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England bowler Mark Wood is struggling to beryllium acceptable for Sunday's T20 World Cup last against Pakistan successful Melbourne.
Wood, 32, missed Thursday's semi-final triumph implicit India with a close hep injury.
He has been the fastest bowler successful the tourney and took 9 wickets successful 4 matches successful the radical signifier arsenic a important portion of England's attack.
"I tried my champion to marque the past crippled but I couldn't vessel astatine the strength and speeds required to play for England," Wood said.
Speaking connected the BBC's Good Pace for Radio podcast, helium added: "I couldn't get my hep going. Hopefully if required I tin effort and get it close for this crippled - I don't cognize if I'll beryllium capable to.
"The squad did truly good past crippled - if the skipper desperately needs maine and I'm acceptable capable past I'll enactment my sanction successful the chapeau similar everyone else."
Wood, who has bowled the quickest transportation astatine the tournament, astatine 96.15mph against New Zealand, besides broke the grounds for the fastest spell successful white-ball cricket, averaging 92.6mph crossed his 4 overs against Afghanistan.
It is understood batter Dawid Malan, who missed the 10-wicket triumph implicit India with a groin wounded is besides improbable to beryllium fit.
On Friday England manager Matthew Mott told the BBC "there isn't a batch of clip for them" but added "I would similar to support a spot of hope".
Wood, who missed the full summertime with an elbow injury, besides took six wickets successful 2 matches erstwhile England won an distant bid against Pakistan 4-3 successful September and October.
His wounded is besides of interest fixed helium is simply a subordinate of England's Test squad for the bid successful Pakistan, which starts connected 1 December.
His quality to vessel astatine precocious gait is seen arsenic vital, fixed the slow, debased surfaces successful Pakistan.
Fellow England bowler and co-host Tymal Mills revealed connected the podcast the brace had to implicit a 300m travel for meal from their squad edifice successful Adelaide connected an electrical scooter, due to the fact that Wood was struggling to walk.
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