Pitching on the line of the stumps to the left-handed James Pattinson, it straightened and caught him right in front.
A carbon copy of a delivery this time finds the edge, and Healy takes a fine low catch behind the stumps.
"The stumps don't move," Wood replied, with a smile.
Indeed, when stumps were drawn, the score was 152-5, so perhaps it was the Midlanders who were more likely to go top of the table with last week's leaders, Durham, having a week off.
Five of them, there are, with the sixth delivery being kept off the stumps by the absolutely last-moment intervention of the very foot of White's bat.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.39am BST09:3rd3rd over: England 9-0 (Taylor 3, Edwards 6) Farrell again, and Edwards is a whisker away from chopping onto her stumps.
On Saturday the sports section of Australia's excellent broadsheet newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald carried a large cartoon of a typically craven English batsman cowering behind his stumps in a pose of snivelling surrender.
Standing in the burned-out wreck of the renowned Mackintosh library, where the symphony of cabinetry has been reduced to blackened brick walls and a few charcoal stumps, it looks as if Vesuvius could easily have erupted.
"It's basically like a shop fit-out," says Ranald McInnes, head of heritage management at Historic Scotland, picking at the charred nails that now protrude from these black stumps.
To the first ball he received after Broad had reverted to this old-fashioned mode of attack, which required the bowler to propel the ball on a length at the stumps, Boult swung again and the ball skied to Lyth at cover.
I should have gone to Spain or Greece like a normal person, and now I'm going to have the stumps to prove it.
