Despite England’s worrying showing, former Pakistani captain Rashid Latif was deeply impressed by the England striker, calling him “the next Babar Azam or Virat Kohli”.
A far cry from the ongoing India-New Zealand series and the upcoming highly anticipated Border Gavaskar Test series, there is another series where ODI World Cup winners England are bottoming out. They already have him in one game and he has lost three in a row. Despite England’s worrying showing, former Pakistani captain Rashid Latif was deeply impressed by the England striker, calling him “the next Babar Azam or Virat Kohli”.
Rashid was particularly impressed by young Harry Brooke. Having made his England debut just a year ago against T20Is against the West Indies, Brook rose to the limelight with a staggering 153 goals against Pakistan in the Rawalpindi Test. He then set consecutive tonnage in Multan and Karachi, ending the streak with a 65-ball 87. It’s a lost cause.
Speaking on his YouTube channel Caught Behind, Rashid hailed Brook as the next big name in international cricket, and when Sunrisers Hyderabad joined his IPL auction last December, the youngster sold him a whopping sum of INR 13.35 crore. I remember asking for
“Looking at Brook’s performance, he stood out in his final two innings. he just doesn’t stop. He also became one of the most expensive foreign players in the IPL auction. Brooke is currently one of the best active players in the world. He could be the next Babar Azam or Virat Kohli,” he said.
Rashid as well as England Test his skipper Ben Stokes compared Brooke to Kohli and helped the youngster become as big as the former Indian skipper in all forms of cricket. “He is one of those rare players that you see in every format and you can see him succeeding everywhere. The pressure he’s putting on the opposition again, that’s what we’re all about,” Stokes told Sky Sports after the Pakistan Series.