Samuel Kenneth William Wood (born 3 April 1993) is an English

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er. Wood is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm

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. He was born at

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, Nottinghamshire and educated at the Colonel Frank Seely School in Nottingham.

County career

Wood made his debut for

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in a

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match in the

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against

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. He made three further List A appearances during the 2011 season, two in the Clydesdale Bank 40 against the Unicorns and

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, and another against Sri Lanka A. He took a total of 3 wickets in these matches, which came at an

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of 24.00, with best figures of 2/24, though he struggled with the bat, scoring just 8 runs in three innings. He made a single first-class appearance in the

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against Lancashire at Trent Bridge. He wasn't a part of the starting eleven in this game, but substituted from day 3 onwards for Samit Patel who had joined up with the

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team for their series against Sri Lanka.

International career

Wood made his debut for England Under-19s in January 2011, playing two Youth

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matches against Sri Lanka Under-19s during England's tour to

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. It was during this tour that he made his Youth

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debut, to date he has had made eleven appearances in that format, most recently in July 2011 when he played seven Youth One Day Internationals against South Africa Under-19s.

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