‘Top 5 I Have Coached…’: Darren Lehmann Heaps Heavy Praises 0n Harry Brook, Rohit Sharma

New Delhi: Former Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann on Sunday lavished heavy praises on England’s up-and-coming big name Harry Brook and Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, naming them a few the head 5 gamers he coached or bowled against for the duration of his profession.

Brook persisted his great run in Take a try cricket, scoring a century against West Indies in the second Take a try at Nottingham on Sunday. Inside of the second innings, Brook scored his fifth Take a try ton and first one in front of his home crowd in the UK. He scored 109 on 132 balls, with 13 fours. His knock came at a strike significance of 82.58.

Brook has been consistent for England in Checks, scoring 1,376 runs in 14 Checks at a normal of Sixty two.fifty four and a strike significance of Ninety.70. He has scored 5 centuries and eight fifties in 23 innings, with the total ranking of 186. His structured of Sixty two.fifty four is the second-best possible in Take a try documents amongst gamers with minimal of 20 Take a try innings. It is able to well be far beneath the batting structured of legendary Australian batter Donald Bradman, who scored 6,996 runs in 52 Checks at a normal of ninety 9.ninety four, with 29 centuries and 13 fifties.

Nevertheless it, the Indian skipper Rohit is in news for triumphing the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 with Men in Blue, ending the crew’s eleven-year-historic ICC trophy drought.

Taking to X, Lehmann additionally cited Australian legend Steve Smith, South African batting icon AB de Villiers and Sri Lankan legendary wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Sangakkara as other gamers in his pinnacle 5.

“The pinnacle 5 I've coached and thrown too are in no spectacular order: Smith @stevesmith49 Rohit Sharma @ImRo45 Harry Brook @YorkshireCCC AB Devillers @ABdeVilliers17 Sanga @KumarSanga2,” tweeted Lehmann.

Inside of the second Take a try, the West Indies got the toss and opted to bowl first.

England delivered a improbable batting performance, powered by procedure of Ollie Pope’s sixth Take a try ton (121 in 167 balls, with 15 fours and a six) and great 0.5-centuries from Ben Duckett (Seventy one in fifty 9 balls, with 14 fours) and skipper Ben Stokes (sixty 9 in 104 balls, with eight fours). England made 416/10 in 88.three overs.

Alzarri Joseph (three/98) became the opt for on out of the bowlers for WI. Jayden Seales, Kavem Hodge, Kevin Sinclair took two wickets, even as Shamar Joseph got one wicket.

Of their first inning, WI became struggling at eighty four/three, observing yet the other potential big loss.

Nevertheless it, Alick Athanaze (82 in ninety 9 balls, with 10 fours and a six) and Kavem Hodge (100 and twenty in 171 balls, with 19 fours) pulled out a best counter-attacking partnership of 100 seventy five runs. Later on, wicketkeeper-batter Joshua da Silva (82* in 122 balls, with 10 fours and three sixes) pulled off a improbable Seventy one-run partnership for the tenth wicket which contains Shamar Joseph (33 in 27 balls, with 5 fours and two sixes), which helped WI breach England’s first innings ranking and take a forty-one-run lead. WI became bundled out for 457 runs in 111.5 overs.

Chris Woakes (four/eighty four) became the head wicket-taker for England. Youthful pacer Gus Atkinson and spinner Shoaib Bashir additionally took two wickets every, even as skipper Ben Stokes and Mark Wood got one.

Of their second inning, England answered to West Indies’ fightback with vigour and hundreds of thousands runs. Even as Ben Duckett (seventy six in ninety two balls, with eleven fours) and Ollie Pope (fifty one in sixty seven balls, with six fours) scored fifties, Root (122) and Harry Brook (109 in 132 balls, with 13 fours) scored big centuries to take England to 425/10 in ninety two.2 overs, atmosphere the West Indies a target of 385 runs to win.

Seales (four/97) became the foremost wicket-taker for West Indies in the second innings, with Alzarri additionally getting two scalps. Shamar, Sinclair and Holder got a wicket every.