{"id":281561,"date":"2025-11-13T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281561\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:37:14","slug":"greg-chappell-compares-england-star-harry-brook-to-sachin-tendulkar-ahead-of-ashes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281561\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Chappell compares England star Harry Brook to Sachin Tendulkar ahead of Ashes series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being compared to Sachin Tendulkar<\/a> is about the highest level of praise any batter could ever receive and that’s exactly what Greg Chappell<\/a> sees in one England star.<\/p>\n

Regarded as one of the greatest of all time, Tendulkar has scored more runs and more centuries than any other player in Test match history.<\/p>\n

So, it should not be taken lightly when an Australian legend like Chappell makes such a big call.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with cricket.com.au ahead of the first Ashes Test, the former Aussie skipper was quizzed about which English player he was excited to watch.<\/p>\n

“For me, Harry Brook<\/a> is the interesting one,” Chappell said.<\/p>\n

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Harry Brook celebrates a century against India\u00a0Getty Images for Surrey CCC<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen a bit of him on television, I’d like to see him live.<\/p>\n

“He looks a really good player, his record suggests that he is a good player and he’s averaging 62 [57.55] in Test cricket so far, that’s a pretty impressive record.<\/p>\n

“I’ve watched him bat on television and he reminds me very much of Sachin Tendulkar in Sachin’s early part of his career.<\/p>\n

“Very minimal movement early on, picks off the angles really well and can score off most deliveries – there’s not many deliveries that he can’t score off.<\/p>\n

“Australia has historically been a test for England batsmen to adapt the first time around and how he adapts will be interesting to watch.”<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old has become perhaps the most exciting batter in world cricket over the past few years, bringing an aggressive style that has caused carnage at Test level.<\/p>\n

Brook has amassed 2820 runs at an average of 57.55 in his 30 appearances, already blasting 10 Test centuries for his country.<\/p>\n

His strike-rate sits in the high 80s, which places him in the upper echelon of that statistic and makes rival bowlers continually second-guess their plans to him.<\/p>\n

Just over a year ago, Brook scored a triple-century against Pakistan, making him the first English player to achieve the rare feat since Graham Gooch in 1990. <\/p>\n

It was also the second-fastest triple-century in Test cricket, coming from 310 balls.<\/p>\n

The only query over Brook heading into this Ashes series, as pointed out by Chappell, is the fact it will mark the first time the right-hander will have played on Australian soil.<\/p>\n

It has been the undoing for many English players over the years. Joe Root, as has been well documented in recent weeks, has never scored a Test century Down Under<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Joe Root\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

In fact, the only current English player who has scored a ton in Australia is Ben Stokes.<\/p>\n

The skipper’s maiden Test match century came in Perth back in the 2013\/14 Ashes, but he has never reached that milestone in Aussie conditions again.<\/p>\n

The pressure gauge of an away Ashes series reaches enormous levels and the proof is in the pudding, given the fact England haven’t won a series here since 2010\/11.<\/p>\n

But if anyone can face it head-on in their first attempt, Brook might be that man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Being compared to Sachin Tendulkar is about the highest level of praise any batter could ever receive and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-281561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}