James Anderson believes Harry Brook can turn out to be England’s greatest ever batter, surpassing even new file run-scorer Joe Root.
Brook turned the primary England man to make a Check triple century for 34 years within the astonishing defeat of Pakistan in Multan.
In the identical Check, Root made 262, and in doing so he handed Sir Alastair Cook dinner’s earlier England better of 12,472 profession runs.
Anderson, England’s best ever bowler and main Check wicket-taker, believes 25-year-old Brook is the perfect mix of Root and one other nice, Kevin Pietersen.
“He is on the best way to being within the prime three that I’ve performed with,” Anderson said on his Tailenders podcast. “It is Root, Pietersen and him. He is positively obtained all of the attributes to overhaul them.
“He is simply obtained every part. With out attempting to massive him up an excessive amount of as a result of he is nonetheless actually early in his Check profession, I do suppose that he is obtained the right quantity of every of these two and that is what is going to make him the very best that we have ever had.”
It’s excessive reward from Anderson, whose haul of 188 Check caps is one other England file.
Together with Root and Pietersen, Anderson was additionally a team-mate of different excellent England batters like Cook dinner, Alec Stewart, Ian Bell, Michael Vaughan and Graham Thorpe.
Brook has 1,875 runs in 19 Assessments and 31 innings. He has an opportunity to turn out to be the quickest Englishman to 2,000 Check runs, beating the 22 matches and 33 innings of the legendary Herbert Sutcliffe in 1928.
Pietersen, maybe the very best three-format batter to ever play for England, had 8,181 runs when his 104-Check profession resulted in 2014. As a comparability, he had 170 runs fewer than Brook after 19 Assessments.