Mark Wood will find out this week if he has suffered a stress fracture in his right elbow, and whether he needs surgery to rectify the problem. Wood was ruled out for the rest of the year at the start of September after a scan revealed what the ECB described as a "bone-stress injury".

England fast bowler Mark Wood has been told to stop picking his children up with his right arm following an elbow injury, he said on Tuesday. Wood, 34, discovered that he had bone stress in his elbow during a medical check-up after he had injured his right thigh during last month's first test against Sri Lanka that ruled him out for the year.

England bowler Mark Wood says he has been told to “stop picking his kids up” with his right arm because of his elbow injury.

England bowler Mark Wood has revealed the elbow injury, that has ruled him out until 2025, means he is also unable to “pick up his kids with his right arm”. The 34-year-old was ruled out of the rest of 2024 with “bone stress” in his right elbow,

England bowler Mark Wood faces a nervous wait to see if the elbow injury that has ruled him out for the rest of the year is a stress fracture. Wood has not played since the first Test against Sri Lanka in August and had already been told he would not be fit for the winter tours of Pakistan and New Zealand before Christmas.