His knock of 111 runs off 98 balls at The Oval almost took England home in a thrilling Test match which India won by six runs. \u201cI have believed for a long time that Harry Brook could be one of the great middle-order players of this generation.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Players like him do not come along too often, and he could end up in the same bracket as Wally Hammond and Denis Compton, who are regarded by everybody who saw them as among England\u2019s greatest. Harry has that special quality of somehow making batting look easy. Let me tell you, it is not. He is tall and that gives him long levers, so when he hits the ball he has a lot of power and takes the game away from bowlers without slogging.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"In this era, compared with everyone else around, he is above them all. I defy anybody to tell me another No 5 in world cricket, or middle-order batsman, who has his talent, his ability to take the game by the scruff of the neck and have bowlers running in, not knowing what to bowl,\u201d wrote Boycott in his column for The Telegraph on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Adding more heft to Brook\u2019s run-scoring ways was India head coach Gautam Gambhir deciding to name him as England\u2019s Player of the Series. Brook now has ten Test centuries including one triple hundred, while amassing 2820 runs in 30 Tests.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cBrook has such a wide range of strokes that when he gets going, he dominates bowlers, scoring in all areas. They are not sure where to bowl at him and that is a wonderful situation to be in as a batsman. I have always believed that every team needs one genuine, unpredictable batsman who can do extraordinary things. Yes, they play daft shots occasionally, but we have to accept that because what you get in return is such a huge bonus. When it is their day they are match-winners,\u201d added Boycott.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Adding more heft to Brook\u2019s run-scoring ways was India head coach Gautam Gambhir deciding to name him as England\u2019s Player of the Series. Brook now has ten Test centuries including one triple hundred, while amassing 2820 runs in 30 Tests.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cHe has a good defence on both the front and back foot so it is not as though he cannot stay in. He can let the moment pass when the bowlers are on top. It\u2019s like playing chess. There are times when you have to sit in and wait for your moment, then explode. If he comes running down the pitch at people like Hazlewood and Cummins then he will be asking for trouble but if he assesses the situation, he can be successful in Australia.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n