‘Clocked’ by a bouncer in Wellington, as culpable as anybody within the dismal Ashes defeat in Australia, pictured ingesting in Noosa and located to have lied when apologising in Sydney.
Brook has had fairly the winter.
This, although, was every part good about England’s white-ball captain. He batted at his harmful finest.
Shock greeted the sight of Brook strolling down the steps moderately than Bethell after Salt nicked off to Shaheen however the considering was sensible.
It stored the right-hander away from Pakistan’s 5 spinners on a turning pitch firstly of his innings and allowed him to make the most of the powerplay fielding restrictions.
Brook confronted three dots in his first 5 balls however then took left-armer Salman Mirza for a 4 and 6 within the second over.
He muscled a brutal straight six over long-on off whereas hitting spinner Mohammad Nawaz for 17 within the sixth, earlier than nudging singles after Banton nicked off to Usman Tariq. The thriller spinner was Pakistan’s main risk.
At midway, Brook kicked on once more, crashing leg-spinner Shadab Khan for an ideal straight six. He scored throughout the bottom however these straight hits and his drives by way of the covers had been notably eye-catching.
He reached three figures with two extra hits over mid-off – one for six and one other a one-bounce 4.
It made him the third man to attain centuries in all three codecs for England, after Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan, however extra importantly it retains them heading in the right direction for a 3rd T20 title.
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