WHETHER BATTING OR BOWLING... MARK WOOD IS MR BAZBALL

THE ASHES IT'S ALL TO PLAY FOR THE LV= INSURANCE THIRD ASHES TEST, DAY FOUR HEADINGLEY, ENGLAND WIN BY THREE WICKETS

- ANDY DUNN

TWELVE runs needed to avert humiliation and keep the Ashes series alive.

Three wickets in hand but Pat Cummins - the world's top-ranked fast bowler - is charging in, well and truly fired up.

Mark Wood, playing his first Test match of the year, is on strike and the silence churns the stomach.

The whole of Headingley knows what is coming. The whole of Headingley knows it is going to be short and quick.

So does Wood.

It is so predictable, he could duck beneath it - after all, there is no rush and the dozen required for victory can be knocked off in ones and twos.

But Wood ducks nothing and he smacks the only six of England's innings and it sounded like the county of Yorkshire erupted.

Just for good measure in the next over, he finesses a thunderbolt from Mitchell Starc to the extra cover boundary and it is as good as game over. Now that is what you call Bazball.

Fearless, fearsome, fast, Wood stared down the Australians and walked away triumphant.