Harry Brook was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 2023. Simon Wilde’s piece on Brook originally appeared in the 2024 edition of Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack.
Joe Root’s first hundred of the season and Harry Brook’s second was good news for England, but Yorkshire are still in a fight to win their first match of the summer in division two.
Harry Brook scored his second Vitality County Championship century of the season and Joe Root his first, while Ben Duckett made 218 as round four continued on Saturday.
England batters Joe Root, Harry Brook and Zak Crawley were all out cheaply as the County Championship returned for round three with the Dukes ball instead of the Kookaburra.
No one was giving Australia a chance of winning the game when England was comfortably placed at 47 for no loss in pursuit of Australia’s modest 128-run target in the quarterfinal of the ICC U-19 World Cup.
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan spoke on Harry Brook and wanted him to be included in the ODI World Cup squad of the Three Lions after he played a stupendous knock in the Hundred 2023 for the Northern Superchargers.