With an incredible knock of 158 runs in the first innings at Edgbaston,Harry Brook went past 2,500 Test runs. In 27 Tests, Harry Brook has racked up 2,596 runs at an incredible average of 60.37. In addition to nine tons, Harry Brook has hit 12 fifties, with his best score being 317. The knock also saw him go past 1,000 runs in home Tests, where he averages 44-plus.
Notably, Harry Brook fell short of his century by a single run during the first Test of the ongoing series at Headingley, Leeds.
As per Cricbuzz,Harry Brook became just the third batter to fall for 99 at Headingley after Pakistan’s Salim Malik (vs Eng, 1987) and England’s Michael Atherton (vs SA, 1994). Meanwhile, Harry Brook now has two 50-plus scores across three Test innings against India.
Harry Brook is confident that England is capable of chasing any target in the 4th innings.
England vice-captain Harry Brook sounded a warning note to India ahead of the fourth day of the Edgbaston Test in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, saying ‘everybody in the world’ knew that they were prepared to chase ‘whatever’ target the visitors set them for the final essay.
“I think everybody in the world knows that we’re going to try and chase whatever they set us,” Harry Brook, who scored a fabulous 158 earlier, said in the post-day press conference.
“We’ve obviously got a big task at hand tomorrow morning and we’ll try and get a couple of wickets early on and try and put them under pressure,” he added.
“Obviously, they are in front of the minute, but if we get a couple of early wickets in the morning… you never know how this game can go. As we’ve seen last week, we got 7 for 30 runs and then 6 for 40 runs at Headingley and then they’ve done the same to us today. Everything happened so quickly and you never know how the game can go,” the 26-year-old added.
This series has indeed been one of collapses. India, like Harry Brook said, saw their lower order lose their footing twice at Headingley, and England lost their last five wickets for 20 runs at Edgbaston. After scoring 587 in the first innings, India bowled out England for 407, courtesy of a six-wicket haul from Mohammed Siraj and a four-fer from Akash Deep. India ended the day at 64/1, with KL Rahul and Karun Nair at the crease and the lead at a healthy 244.
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