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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes England’s Harry Brook is presently the perfect Take a look at batter on the earth and added he stays in awe of his method to taking part in the longer format. On Wednesday, right-handed Brook was unveiled as new top-ranked Take a look at batter after going previous his team-mate Joe Root within the rankings checklist, along with his score factors being 898. Brook, 25, scored 171 within the first Take a look at of England’s ongoing tour of New Zealand in Christchurch, and adopted it up by making 123 and 55 within the second Take a look at in Wellington.
Brook averages a whopping 89.35 in Assessments away from dwelling, as in comparison with simply 38.05 on dwelling soil, together with seven of his eight Take a look at centuries coming exterior of England. “He in all probability is (the perfect Take a look at batter on the earth) proper now. He’s doing a little fairly wonderful issues and most of them he’s doing away from dwelling.”
“That is his seventh hundred now away from dwelling out of eight or 9 a whole bunch and it is the best way he will get his runs, with class and he will get them shortly below this new regime and I really like watching him play,” stated Ponting on the ICC Evaluate present.
Brook made his Take a look at debut in 2022, and has scored 2,280 runs from 38 innings throughout 23 matches to date with a median of 61.62. Ponting had roped in Brook for INR 4 crore within the Indian Premier League (IPL) public sale in 2023 as head coach of the Delhi Capitals.
However Brook did not make it to IPL 2024 as he determined to remain in England attributable to private causes. Ponting, who will coach Punjab Kings in IPL 2025, believes Brook can flourish in all codecs of the sport.
“I acquired him within the IPL public sale final yr as a result of I believe he is a generational sort of participant. I believe he is actually beginning to present that now at Take a look at stage and I believe he can do the identical throughout all three codecs.”
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