London: England bowler Mark Wood will have ankle surgery and is set to miss the tour of India, the ECB said on Sunday.

The 26-year-old will require a third operation on his left ankle within a year, after it was discovered that he had fractured a bone during a County Championship match against Surrey last month.

"There's no reason to think that when he's had this bone fragment removed, he won't be able to get back to bowling as well as he has in the second half of the summer," physiotherapy lead Ben Langley said.

"His ankle swelled up during the game and then we were perplexed when nothing showed up on the first scan. It was only when we got him in for a second scan that we discovered he'd been playing on despite having fractured a bone," Langley added. (Agencies)