As Harry Brook walked out to bat at Old Trafford on Friday night, he received the kind of ovation that cannot have been experienced by too many of his fellow Yorkshiremen on excursions across the Pennines.
It followed Brook south, too, to Birmingham on Sunday, where he made only eight runs in England’s heavy defeat to New Zealand, but that is unlikely to quiet the noise when this four-match T20 series reaches its climax at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.
