Luke Wood, a left-arm pace bowler with the priceless ability to swing the ball back into the right-handers, made great strides in 2015 as he joined two other Nottinghamshire quicks, Brett Hutton and Jake Ball, in a breakthrough season. He played 11 Championship matches, taking 30 wickets, and earned a place on an ECB fast bowling camp in South Africa.

Remarkably, even by his own mind, he also lodged a maiden Championship hundred in only his eighth innings, happily rated by his director of cricket, Mick Newell, as the "most remarkable I have ever seen in first-class cricket". Put in by Sussex on a green Trent Bridge pitch, Notts collapsed to 98 for 7, at which point Wood, fresh from a pair in his previous match, hit a century from 105 balls with 10 fours and six sixes, an innings buzzing with youthful optimism as wild flails gave way to resounding connections. He scored his last 28 runs at nine wickets down, protecting No. 11 Harry Gurney from the strike.

Wood had the distinction of winning a T20 Blast medal two years in succession for two different counties, firstly for Nottinghamshire in a treble-winning year in 2017 and then on loan with Worcestershire the following summer.
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