{"id":936571,"date":"2026-05-04T06:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:54:16","slug":"wood-aims-to-regain-england-place-after-injury-concerns-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936571\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood aims to regain England place after injury concerns | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood has been working his way back from surgery, but has faced further setbacks after briefly returning to action in Perth, a cycle he admits has been frustrating and difficult to manage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mega frustrating. It\u2019s been a long time, over a year since I had the initial surgery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo build it back up for seven months to play one game, and then be out again takes its toll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, despite his injury, Wood is aiming to add to his 146 caps and 253 wickets across formats for England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still trying to get back to bowling, hopefully later on in the summer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to keep your eye on the prize, which is ultimately for me, trying to get to playing for England. That\u2019s my focus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood has been working his way back from surgery, but has faced further setbacks after briefly returning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,393,4884,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-936571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-england","24":"tag-great-britain","25":"tag-icc","26":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","27":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","28":"tag-international-cricket-news","29":"tag-latest-cricket-news","30":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","31":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","32":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","36":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","37":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}