Ashes: Wood makes merry

Mark Wood ripped the Australian batting lineup award on his return to the England team in the first day of the 3rd Ashes Test at the Headingley on Thursday. Wood began his day by uprooting Usman Khawaja’s leg stump and continued his rampage as he sent back Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Todd Murphy to restrict Australia to 263. Earlier, Australia allrounder Mitchell Marsh took advantage of England’s sloppy catching to smash a brutal century and change the game on the first day Thursday of the third Ashes test at Headingley.Australia skipper Pat Cummins then reduced England to 22-2 before all-rounder Marsh, playing his first Test in nearly four years, had Zak Crawley (33) well caught at first slip by David Warner in the latest example of the tourists’ superior fielding. At stumps, England were 68-3 — a deficit of 195 runs — with Joe Root 19 not out and Jonny Bairstow one not out on their Yorkshire home ground.