India, March 14 -- England tearaway pacer Mark Wood is at a stage where he has started thinking about life after cricket.

Wood has not played any cricket since the first Ashes Test last year, and several months on, is still nursing a knee injury. And he is not getting any younger. At the age of 36, he very well knows the end might be near. However, he wants to give it one more go.

"I've started thinking about other things, doing podcasts, doing my coaching badges.

"I've now started to try and think for the first time about what I should do if this doesn't go well," he told the Tailenders podcast.

Talking about what shape his knee is in, Wood, whose Ashes appearance in November had been preceded by no cricket for 15 months on account o...