Strategic Timeout: Mark Wood on the IPL, England & the pressure of playing
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Watch Strategic Timeout on the BBC Sport Youtube channel and on BBC iPlayer.
England fast bowler Mark Wood joins Traitors finalist Faraaz Noor and Amber Sandhu to discuss the biggest stories in the IPL and shares how he’s faring ahead of a busy summer of cricket.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Your time starts now. |
| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Absolutely right. |
| 0:11.5 | So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | Really? |
| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means a hatful of ha ha haas. |
| 0:21.7 | And energy. |
| 0:44.9 | Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. You can keep up with all things IPL by watching strategic timeout in full on the BBC Sport YouTube channel and BBC IPlayer. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh, I think I was doing at 15 and then what he's doing at 15 is very, very different. |
| 0:53.7 | Very surprised if he's not sort of involved or even selected for the next T20. I don't want that because it's against England. |
| 0:55.2 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | So let's just hold fire a little bit. |
| 0:59.0 | And then there was a problem with politics with something to do with the farms and the water. |
| 1:04.2 | So that was threatening on releasing snakes into the stadium while I was there. |
| 1:09.9 | The only way I can describe this, if you've got a sweet tooth, you'll absolutely love it. |
| 1:12.6 | Obviously everyone likes to see balls flying about here and there, but when it happens all the time, |
| 1:16.6 | it's sort of, the novelty sort of wears off of it. |
| 1:19.6 | All good, ready to go? |
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