Luke Wood (born 2 August 1995) is an English

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er who plays for

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and

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. Primarily a left-arm fast bowler, he also bats left-handed. He made his first-class debut for

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against

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in September 2014. He made his international debut in 2022 In April 2022, he was bought by the

Trent Rockets Trent Rockets are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Nottingham. The team represents the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire in the newly founded The Hundred (cri ...

for the 2022 season of The Hundred. The following month, Wood was named in England's

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(ODI) squad for their series against the Netherlands. In September 2022, he was named in the England's T20I squad for the series against Pakistan. He made his T20I debut on 20 September 2022, against

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. Wood made his ODI debut on 17 November 2022, against Australia. In the BPL

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, He was taken by

Sylhet Strikers Sylhet Strikers (Sylheti/ bn, সিলেট স্ট্রাইকার্স) is a professional cricket franchise team based in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The team competes in the Bangladesh Premier League. The franchise made their debut at the ...

franchise. He played a crucial part in the Qualifier 2 conceding just 3 runs in the penultimate over helping Sylhet reach the final of BPL 2023.

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* 1995 births Living people Cricketers from Sheffield English cricketers England Twenty20 International cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Lancashire cricketers English cricketers of the 21st century Trent Rockets cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub