By Chris Stocks
Speed merchant: Mark Wood is enjoying bowling in tandem with Jofra Archer
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MARK WOOD admits it an honour to be compared to North-East fast bowling royalty in Steve Harmison as he looks to help England land a World Cup and Ashes double this summer.
Like Harmison, who took 302 wickets during a seven-year international cricket between 2002 and 2009, Wood is another speed merchant to come out of Ashington in Northumberland.
The pair are close and, after coming through years of injury problems, Wood has looked back to his best – and fastest – b...
