England’s batting star has come a long way from Ilkley grammar and comparisons with another Yorkshireman are hard to avoid
His Test record now reads: four Tests, three hundreds, one fifty, at the bold average of exactly 80 and a breakneck strike rate of 92.13. None of which is a great surprise to Speight, who first met Brook as a 14-year-old on a cricket camp, just weeks before Brook joined Sedbergh school in Cumbria, where Speight is director of cricket.
Brook came to Sedbergh from Ilkley grammar on both a sports scholarship and a bursary in year 10. Speight remembers a shy, quiet, very introverted boy – quite different from the man who now talks with some confidence in front of the cameras – though he’s retained his straightforwardness. He has also physically metamorphosised.Yorkshire
And so Brook did, dedicating two hours a week to training with the school athletics coach, until he was transformed. On top of that were hours spent in the nets. He grabbed the opportunity the school offered him, and never looked back.Photograph: Surjeet Yadav/AFP/Getty Images
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