Was Harry Brook, a £1.3m signing by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the recent Indian Premier League auction, possibly undervalued? At the end of the fourth day in Wellington, one that included a Kane Williamson masterclass and an England fightback, and set up the possibility of an intriguing conclusion to this two-Test series, it somehow wasn’t an entirely ridiculous question.
Brook scored that huge deal on the basis of his incendiary batting but the young Yorkshireman, it transpires, has another string to his bow: partnership breaker, catalyst for a collapse and, most remarkably, kryptonite to a superman performance from Williamson on the day he became New Zealand’s record run-scorer.
