In all probability Greatest Check Batter In World Proper Now: Ricky Ponting Hails Harry Brook

Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting feels England batter Harry Brook is presently the perfect Check batter on this planet and his latest rise to change into the No.1 ranked participant is completely deserved.

Notably, Brook scored his eighth Check century for England in a thumping 323-run victory over New Zealand in Wellington final week and it helped him overtake his teammate Joe Root and declare the highest rating for Check batters.

Within the episode of The ICC Assessment, Ponting spoke about Brook’s rise to the highest.

Brook averages a whopping 89.35 at Check stage away from dwelling – compared to simply 38.05 on dwelling soil – and he has now made seven of his eight Check centuries outdoors of England.

“He most likely is (the perfect Check batter on this planet) proper now. He’s performing some fairly wonderful issues and most of them he’s doing away from dwelling,” stated Ponting.

“That is his seventh hundred now away from dwelling out of eight or 9 a whole lot and it is the best way he will get his runs, with class and he will get them shortly underneath this new regime and I really like watching him play,” he added.

Apparently, Ponting had splashed out Rs 4 Crore on the Indian Premier League public sale in 2023 as a coach of the Delhi Capitals to signal Brook.

Whereas Brook did not make it to the IPL in 2024 as he determined to remain in England resulting from a household challenge, Ponting nonetheless stays a giant fan of the brand new No.1 ranked Check batter and believes he can flourish in all codecs of the sport.

“I received him within the IPL public sale final 12 months as a result of I believe he is a generational kind of participant,” Ponting famous.

“I believe he is actually beginning to present that now at Check stage and I believe he can do the identical throughout all three codecs,” he added.