{"id":14719,"date":"2025-07-22T05:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14719\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:32:21","slug":"not-in-same-league-as-root-brook-hails-no-1-test-batter-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14719\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not in same league as Root\u2019: Brook hails No.1 Test batter\u00a0 | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hosts are currently 2-1 up in the ICC World Test Championship series but Brook believes England will err on the side of the caution, given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/siraj-updates-on-bumrah-s-availability-for-fourth-england-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India&#8217;s bouncebackability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, we&#8217;re in a strong position. We&#8217;re happy with the way the games have gone so far. They&#8217;ve been tense, they&#8217;ve been good to watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to this week. Another different challenge, depending on the surface. But yeah, India are a very strong side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can bounce back at any stage. We saw that after we beat them in Headingley, they came back and had excellent an form at Edgbaston. We&#8217;re going to go out there and do our thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fourth Test between England and India will begin from July 23 at Old Trafford, Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hosts are currently 2-1 up in the ICC World Test Championship series but Brook believes England will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9830,7529,1721,9832,7530,9829,9831,50,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-14719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-cricket","tag-harry-brook-02-22-1999","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-joe-root-12-30-1990","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}