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Harry Brook

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
He is awesome but I will be a little hesitant to anoint him yet.

But yes - with Crawley, Duckett, Pope and Brook - it can be an exciting top 4 in the future for England.

Think Brook will hit Root level as a ceiling, Crawley KP level and Pope Bell level. Duckett, I guess Tresco level?
 

howitzer

State Captain
He is awesome but I will be a little hesitant to anoint him yet.

But yes - with Crawley, Duckett, Pope and Brook - it can be an exciting top 4 in the future for England.

Think Brook will hit Root level as a ceiling, Crawley KP level and Pope Bell level. Duckett, I guess Tresco level?
I'd definitely take that given what we've had the past decade or so.
 

trundler

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Crawley will be lucky to get to Kraigg Brathwaite level. He's a moderate upgrade on Bryan Young so far.
 

howitzer

State Captain
lol that's a random name (the Kiwi I presume?) Did you ever watch Young bat? He was stodgy as ****, should've been the one with Crawl in his name.
Yeah needs to be someone fairly attacking. At the moment he's kind of a moderate downgrade on players like Herschelle Gibbs and Tamim Iqbal.

Edit: By that I mean based on his career so far. Over the last 18 months or so he's been just like them.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Crawley will be lucky to get to Kraigg Brathwaite level. He's a moderate upgrade on Bryan Young so far.
Eh, his average is only a couple behind Brathwaite now. If he continues his form from the last year he’s way beyond that. But it is an if.
 

CartyDurham

International Captain
Eh, his average is only a couple behind Brathwaite now. If he continues his form from the last year he’s way beyond that. But it is an if.
With a 0 and 3 for Crawley, the next test he may score over 150 . He’s the most boom or bust player England have had
 

trundler

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lol that's a random name (the Kiwi I presume?) Did you ever watch Young bat? He was stodgy as ****, should've been the one with Crawl in his name.
I've watched him loads in those series where Waqar wrecked NZ. He also got a big double against Pakistan like Crawley so felt like an appropriate comparison.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Brook just got his 5th hundred in only 23 innings, which is a hundred 23.7% of the time. I can only find Bradman (36.3%) and Headley (25.0%) ahead of him on this stat...
Ridiculous stat but he has had a Hussey like start. Can he keep it up? Time will tell. Looks a player who will be averaging 47+ after about 50 games though as if he isn't he will have dropped off like Ballance did and been dropped.
 

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
I've watched him loads in those series where Waqar wrecked NZ. He also got a big double against Pakistan like Crawley so felt like an appropriate comparison.
Sri Lanka. I should know - I was at Carisbrook that day to see him bring up 200. One problem - we were in a corporate box above the terraces and couldn't see a thing on the pitch at that point because university students had set fire to the couches they'd been allowed to bring into the ground, and the billowing smoke was filling the sky in front of us.
 

Blenkinsop

U19 Vice-Captain
I think Brook has the potential to be even better than Root. He has very similar technique but with the power to hit sixes. And he hasn't been burdened by the captaincy (yet).
 

Kraken

State Captain
he's clearly a good player, not super convinced that he will go well in Aus (his biggest test), but a good stick nonetheless.
Root's a far better player imo
 

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