Harry Brook saw: After the English team won the first match of the three-match Test series between New Zealand and England, the second Test match of the series is being played between the two teams at the Wellington ground from today, which has seen the wonders of Harry Brook’s bat since then. Brooke not only played an innings of 123 runs but also scored his 8th century in only the 23rd Test match of his Test career. Looking at the current times, Brook has surpassed many great players in this regard. England were in dire straits when Brooke came out to bat, with four players returning to the pavilion by the score of 43, from where Brooke took charge of England’s innings and played an important role in the score.
Brooke became the 9th batsman to score the fastest 8 Test centuries
Harry Brooke has had a great performance in Test cricket in 2024, scoring a thousand Test runs so far this year. Harry Brooke became the fastest batsman in the history of Test cricket to score 8 centuries and joined Don Bradman’s legendary list. Brooke achieved this feat in the 38th innings of his Test career. Along with this, he also became the fourth batsman to complete 1000 runs in Test cricket in the year 2024, with Joe Root, Yashaswi Jaiswal and Ben Duckett doing this feat before him. This was Harry Brook’s 16th Test innings of his Test career on foreign soil, making him the highest century scorer. By doing this he has surpassed Don Bradman. Don Bradman scored 6 centuries after 16 innings on foreign soil.
England’s first innings ended on 280 runs
England’s first innings in the Wellington Test ended on a score of 280 runs, with Harry Brooke scoring 123 runs and Ollie Pope also scoring 66 runs. Apart from this, no other batsman of the England team was able to cross the mark of 20 runs. In bowling for the Kiwi team, Nathan Smith took 4 wickets while William O’Rourke took 3 wickets while Matt Henry also took 2 wickets.
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