Mark Wood (cricketer)

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“The lads get to spend loads of time together. They don't just play golf, they're talking about cricket. You get away from the mental pressures of the tour, or at home. I see both points.”

“They're grown men. If it is to their detriment and they don't play well, that's a detriment to your career, so that's up to you as an adult.”

“I wouldn't have done that because of what people might perceive me to be.”

“It just felt like a huge pressure cooker, more so than normal.”

“A lot of the times we were doing interviews, saying outlandish things that probably didn't help the cause.”

“People can say what they want about when Australia come here, but if they get followed like we got followed in Australia, I would be amazed,”

“I remember bowling in the nets in Perth, almost convincing myself I'm ready to go, then at the back of my mind thinking 'I'm nowhere near'.”

“I think the hamstring was over-compensating for my knee, protecting my knee, and that's why it got tight.”

“Coming to Perth my knee probably wasn't right, and then my hamstring – I've never had a hamstring problem in my whole career.”

“I look back at it from a personal point of view that I was nowhere near ready”

“I stopped the play and went to Gus to say 'what are we actually doing here, because this is the last resort? If you don't change it now, we're finished, and the game is literally gone”