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Harry Brook will make his England Test debut against South Africa on Thursday England v South Africa, third LV Insurance Test Venue: The Kia Oval Dates: 8-12 September Start time: 11:00 BST Coverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Radio 4 LW, and BBC Sport website & app. Live text commentary & in-play clips on BBC Sport website & app Pauline Brook's washing line is kept busy by her grandson, Harry. Yorkshire, Northern Superchargers, Hobart Hurricanes, Lahore Qalanders. There is an England Test shirt on the way, too. "She loves doing my washing," says Brook. "If she ever says she doesn't like it, she's lying. "She's been on holiday recently, so I might have some smelly kit going around." It was at Burley where Brook's journey to becoming England men's Test cap number 707 began. His late grandfather Tony, Pauline's husband, was a club stalwart. Today there is a bench at the ground bearing his name. Tony's sons - David, Richard and Nick - all played. David is Harry's father. "Come rain or shine, I was in the nets with my dad, grandad and uncles," says Brook, who will make his Test debut batting at number five in the series decider against South Africa at The Oval which begins on Thursday. • Stokes looks to cap 'great summer' with series win • Anderson & Broad eyeing Ashes, says Stokes The 23-year-old right-hander is every inch the modern batter. Already a globe-trotting franchise star with four Twenty20 international caps to h...

In the winter of 2022-23, Harry Brook announced himself as one of the world's most exciting young players with a staggering run of form across formats, most particularly in England's rebooted Test team. After making his debut against South Africa in September 2022, Brook travelled to Pakistan and New Zealand with Ben Stokes' team, where he peeled off consecutive scores of 153, 87, 9, 111, 89, 54, and 186 to take his overall tally to 809 runs in nine innings, at an extraordinary strike-rate of 98.77. No player in Test history had started with a bigger bang - Vinod Kambli had 796 runs after his own ninth innings - and not even Brook's anticlimactic tenth innings (run out without facing in England's thrilling one-run defeat at Wellington) could take the gloss off his achievement. By then, Brook was also a T20 World Cup winner, after featuring in England's triumph in Australia earlier in the winter, and at the IPL auction in December, he was snapped up by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 13.25 crore (£1.3 million). A former England U19s captain, Brook had flickered in Yorkshire colours over the first couple of years of his professional career, most notably when scoring a maiden first-class hundred at Chelmsford in 2018, as the visitors recovered from being bowled out for 50 in their first innings to inflict defeat on reigning champions Essex. He recorded a List A hundred at the start of Yorkshire's 2019 Royal London Cup campaign, and showed signs of greater consistency the following...

NEW DELHI: As the eagerly anticipated Ashes series gets underway at Edgbaston on Friday, England's young batting sensation, Harry Brook, is eager to make a similar impact to the heroes of the iconic 2005 Ashes victory. The 24-year-old Yorkshire cricketer has enjoyed a remarkable start to his international career, having already notched up four centuries in just seven Test matches. Brook also played a significant role in England's triumph at the T20 World Cup. With England determined to reclaim the prestigious Ashes urn, Brook's inclusion in the squad brings hope for a formidable batting performance against Australia. "It's definitely a dream come true to be involved in my first Ashes," said Brook. "I was growing up watching the very best players from England and Australia facing each other. "Obviously the 2005 Ashes was a big one. I can always remember the over (Andrew) Flintoff bowled to (Ricky) Ponting and KP ( "They were my earliest memories. I'm going to go out there and play the way I have done in the last 12 months. I hope that's enough to inspire a few too." Brook, who averages a remarkable 81.80 in Test cricket, is unfazed about facing the newly crowned Test world champions and their much-vaunted bowling attack. "They're one of the best teams in the world, coming off the back of a World Test Championship win," he said. "I'm looking forward to facing those boys, challenging myself against them and whatever plans they have against me." Brook's success at the top leve...

Harry Brook can become a national treasure (Picture: Getty Images) Shane Warne and Sir Ian Botham achieved sporting immortality by delivering the goods in the Ashes. Warne dug into his magical box of tricks to produce the ball of the century and dismiss a bewildered Mike Gatting with his first delivery at Old Trafford 30 years ago. The late, great, legendary Australian spinner reckoned the wicket changed his life while Botham has an entire series named after him following his heroics when pulling an improbable turnaround out of the fire in 1981. Andrew Flintoff, Naked Attraction celeb special in the works with Anna Richardson teasing names He’s averaging 81.80 as he hurtles towards being the fastest to 1,000 Test runs and the Yorkshireman is 5/1 with William Hill to be England’s top batter this summer. The hosts are seeking to extend their superb run of 11 wins in 13 Tests since hitting the ‘red-ball reset’ by appointing Robert Key as director of cricket, Stokes as captain and Brendon McCullum as coach last spring. Their philosophy is victory or bust with the draw not an option and it will be fascinating to watch as they face the new World Test Champions, who are fresh from trouncing India by 209 runs in the final at The Oval. England, who have routinely taken 20 wickets per Test in their recent run, have not lost an Ashes series on home soil since 2001 and old warhorse James Anderson is 10/3 with Ladbrokes to be their top bowler. Reliable James Anderson will again be amon...

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“Obviously the 2005 Ashes was a big one. I can always remember the over (Andrew) Flintoff bowled to (Ricky) Ponting and KP (Kevin Pietersen) smacking it everywhere against (Shane) Warne and (Glenn) McGrath, those boys. They were my earliest memories. I’m going to go out there and play the way I have done in the last 12 months. I hope that’s enough to inspire a few too.”

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Follow us on: • Facebook icon • Instagram icon • Twitter icon • Snapchat icon • LinkedIn icon • YouTube icon More from The Telegraph • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • See top shops • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Harry Brook's cricket-mad family knew he was special – and put money on it Brought up in a cricket-mad family his journey to stardom has seen him go from village club cricket to feared international batsman Watch England or watch the local cricket club from her back garden? For Pauline Brook, the grandmother of Harry, it is a perennial question. “I watch Burley,” she laughs, looking down onto down onto Burley in Wharfedale’s lush outfield. The only exception this Ashes summer will be “when Harry goes to Headingley - that’ll be England.” In the Burley in Wharfedale clubhouse it is hard to miss Brook, even if he is not on the TV batting in a Test match. The walls are covered with clippings of him, both in the whites of England and Burley. He is there, too, in old photographs of the team — which also often contain his father and two uncles, all fine first XI players here. Pauline was born in Burley, a village 12 miles north-west of Leeds. Together with her late husband Tony, Harry’s grandfather, she moved into their unassuming, well-kept two-storey house in 1968. In the 55 years since, cricket has been “the centre of family life,” Pauline says. It is a shared love passed down through generations. After previously playing for local rivals Green Lane, Tony move...

Harry Brook will make his England Test debut against South Africa on Thursday England v South Africa, third LV Insurance Test Venue: The Kia Oval Dates: 8-12 September Start time: 11:00 BST Coverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Radio 4 LW, and BBC Sport website & app. Live text commentary & in-play clips on BBC Sport website & app Pauline Brook's washing line is kept busy by her grandson, Harry. Yorkshire, Northern Superchargers, Hobart Hurricanes, Lahore Qalanders. There is an England Test shirt on the way, too. "She loves doing my washing," says Brook. "If she ever says she doesn't like it, she's lying. "She's been on holiday recently, so I might have some smelly kit going around." It was at Burley where Brook's journey to becoming England men's Test cap number 707 began. His late grandfather Tony, Pauline's husband, was a club stalwart. Today there is a bench at the ground bearing his name. Tony's sons - David, Richard and Nick - all played. David is Harry's father. "Come rain or shine, I was in the nets with my dad, grandad and uncles," says Brook, who will make his Test debut batting at number five in the series decider against South Africa at The Oval which begins on Thursday. • Stokes looks to cap 'great summer' with series win • Anderson & Broad eyeing Ashes, says Stokes The 23-year-old right-hander is every inch the modern batter. Already a globe-trotting franchise star with four Twenty20 international caps to h...

Harry Brook can become a national treasure (Picture: Getty Images) Shane Warne and Sir Ian Botham achieved sporting immortality by delivering the goods in the Ashes. Warne dug into his magical box of tricks to produce the ball of the century and dismiss a bewildered Mike Gatting with his first delivery at Old Trafford 30 years ago. The late, great, legendary Australian spinner reckoned the wicket changed his life while Botham has an entire series named after him following his heroics when pulling an improbable turnaround out of the fire in 1981. Andrew Flintoff, Naked Attraction celeb special in the works with Anna Richardson teasing names He’s averaging 81.80 as he hurtles towards being the fastest to 1,000 Test runs and the Yorkshireman is 5/1 with William Hill to be England’s top batter this summer. The hosts are seeking to extend their superb run of 11 wins in 13 Tests since hitting the ‘red-ball reset’ by appointing Robert Key as director of cricket, Stokes as captain and Brendon McCullum as coach last spring. Their philosophy is victory or bust with the draw not an option and it will be fascinating to watch as they face the new World Test Champions, who are fresh from trouncing India by 209 runs in the final at The Oval. England, who have routinely taken 20 wickets per Test in their recent run, have not lost an Ashes series on home soil since 2001 and old warhorse James Anderson is 10/3 with Ladbrokes to be their top bowler. Reliable James Anderson will again be amon...