WATCH: After fiery 5-wicket haul, Mark Wood plays thrilling cameo with bat, scores 24 off just 8 balls for England in 3rd Ashes Test

The Star England pacer Mark Wood impressed everyone with his amazing and fiery bowling in the first innings. Wood claimed a five-wicket haul in the first innings to play a crucial role in bundling up the visitors on the score of 263 runs on the first day of the ongoing third Ashes 2023 Test.

Apart from that, the star pacer also made his comeback memorable playing a thrilling cameo with the bat as well. He came to bat for England when they had lost 8 wickets on the score of 167 runs.

The lower-order batter thrilled everyone with his quick 24 runs off just 8 balls including a boundary and three sensational sixes straight into the crowd. The short video of this amazing cameo by him is also making rounds on social media within minutes of being shared by England Cricket from their official Twitter handle.

Here’s the video:

A thrilling cameo from Woody 🚀

2️⃣4️⃣ from just 8️⃣ balls! #EnglandCricket | #Ashes pic.twitter.com/9J4rOCAcrK

— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 7, 2023

Speaking of the ongoing action of the match, England are all out on the score of 237 runs with 26 runs left in meeting the first-innings total of 263 runs scored by Australia. Skipper Ben Stokes ended up once again as the leading run-scorer in the innings. He played a struggling knock of 80 runs with six boundaries and five sixes.

The Australian skipper Pat Cummins led the bowling attack from the front and claimed an amazing 6-fer. He scalped 6 wickets after conceding 91 runs in 18 overs. Other than him, the veteran pacer Mitchell Starc also claimed two wickets.

Mitchell Marsh and Todd Murphy also picked one wicket each for Australia in the first innings of England.

Now, Australia will start their second innings after the innings break in the second session on the second day of the match. They have taken a lead of 26 runs after the end of the first innings.

Now, the Aussies will be eyeing to set a big score to trouble England during the fourth-innings run chase at the Headingley in Leeds. One more win will make it sure that the Aussies will be retaining the Ashes consecutively.