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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes England’s Harry Brook is presently the very best Take a look at batter on this planet and added he stays in awe of his strategy 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 listing, along with his ranking 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 Exams away from residence, as in comparison with simply 38.05 on residence soil, together with seven of his eight Take a look at centuries coming outdoors of England. “He probably is (the best Test batter in the world) right now. He is doing some pretty amazing things and most of them he is doing away from home.”
“That’s his seventh hundred now away from home out of eight or nine hundreds and it’s the way he gets his runs, with class and he gets them quickly under this new regime and I love watching him play,” mentioned 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 thus far with a mean 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 as a result of private causes. Ponting, who will coach Punjab Kings in IPL 2025, believes Brook can flourish in all codecs of the sport.
“I got him in the IPL auction last year because I think he’s a generational type of player. I think he’s really starting to show that now at Test level and I think he can do the same across all three formats.”
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