Harry Brook elevated himself above the flat Rawalpindi pitch to sprinkle yet more of his stardust across the record books.
In a dressing room full of players trying to push the envelope as to what is possible in Test cricket, Brook has elbowed his way to the front of the queue in just his second match. On day two and with a hundred already to his name, his record-breaking antics saw him take ownership of the fastest 150 scored by an England player off his skipper Ben Stokes with his 115 balls beating the captain’s 135 in Cape Town.
And less than 24 hours after hitting an English record 24 runs from a single over, he set a new benchmark with 27 fittingly coming from Zehid Mahmood’s 27th over. Brook eventually fell from the next ball after getting to 153, the 116th ball he faced, and it brought the curtain down on a performance that should be difficult to live up to, but one suspects may become the norm for a player so comfortable at this level.
