Luke Wood

Luke Wood, a left-arm fast bowler with the priceless ability to swing the ball back into right-handers, joined Lancashire at the end of the 2019 season in search of a more regular first-team place after spending time in and out of the Nottinghamshire side.

His first season at the club was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, though he bowled impressively throughout the T20 Blast to take Lancashire to the semi-finals. In 2021, he swung the red ball impressively and cracked a Championship hundred from No. 8 against Kent.

Wood made great strides in 2015, alongside two other Nottinghamshire quicks, Brett Hutton and Jake Ball, playing 11 Championship matches, taking 30 wickets, and earning a place on an ECB fast-bowling camp in South Africa. He also lodged a maiden Championship hundred, against Sussex, in only his eighth innings, off 96 balls, an innings replete with wild flails that gave way to resounding connections, and rescued Notts from 98 for 7. Wood's director of cricket, Mick Newell, rated the century the "most remarkable I have ever seen in first-class cricket".

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