‘Too quick’: England villain taunts Aussies as speed freak’s bizarre ‘barking’ antics revealed

England bowler Ollie Robinson has claimed that teammate Mark Wooden was “too fast” for Australia’s top-order throughout the third Ashes Take a look at at Headingley, additionally revealing he’s “100 per cent” match for subsequent week’s match in Manchester.

Wooden, who was sidelined for the opening two Ashes Assessments, earned Participant of the Match honours for his blistering 5-34 throughout the first innings in Leeds, his maiden five-wicket haul on home soil.

The Headingley crowd was totally captivated when Wooden was introduced into the assault on day one – the 33-year-old was hooping the Dukes ball at 152km/h and touchdown a few physique blows. At one stage, England’s slips cordon was nearer to the boundary rope than pitch.

“It was loopy … I felt like in the event that they hit it greater than a metre both facet of me it was a sure boundary,” Robinson recalled in his Wisden column.

“The very fact he was persistently getting the form and motion on it as nicely – at that velocity – was simply unbelievable bowling. It was simply superb to look at and be part of, although not so superb for the batters, I’d think about.”

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Wooden knocked over Australian opener Usman Khawaja throughout his opening spell with a vicious inswinger that uprooted the left-hander’s leg stump.

Regardless of surviving Wooden’s blitz, Marnus Labuschagne regarded uncomfortable towards the right-armer – throughout the Headingley Take a look at, the Queenslander scored simply two runs in 42 deliveries towards Wooden.

Labuschagne additionally struggled towards Wooden throughout the 2021/22 Ashes sequence in Australia, falling sufferer to him thrice at a median of 12.33.

“There was one ball that Marnus performed, and after it he had a form of wry, awkward smile on his face,” Robinson stated.

“He was attempting to provide off the persona that all the pieces’s superb, when it’s actually not, as a result of somebody’s bowling 95 miles per hour. You knew it was too fast for him after that.

“And even (Khawaja), who clearly performs tempo rather well and has been in such good kind, even he struggled with the tempo at instances. He went from having this quiet persona on the crease to all of the sudden smiling and joking, attempting to provide off the feel-good vibes that he was superb.”

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Robinson additionally revealed a few of Wooden’s weird dressing room antics throughout the thrilling three-wicket victory, which included barking on the ground like a canine.

“Woody’s simply obtained this mad, distinctive vitality. There’s nobody else like him,” Robinson wrote.

“You suppose he’s drunk half the time but he doesn’t contact a drop. Keep in mind it is a bloke who, 10 minutes earlier than we went out, actually at 10.50am, was on all-fours barking on the altering room ground, going, ‘There’s a canine within the dressing room. There’s a canine in right here, lads.’”

On day one of many Headingley Take a look at, Robinson left the field with back spasms in a irritating damage blow for the hosts – he didn’t bowl for the rest of the match.

Nonetheless, the 29-year-old declared he was “100 per cent” match for the Outdated Trafford Take a look at, which will get underway on Wednesday.

“I used to be out there to bowl on the third day if I’d been wanted,” Robinson stated.

“The medical staff stated that’s it’s prone to have occurred as a result of I performed back-to-back Take a look at matches, and bowled 15 overs of bumpers at Lord’s. So typically these items come round, however then they go simply as rapidly as nicely.”