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Harry Brook absolutely fits the bill to come into this England team as they seek to finish the international summer with a series victory over South Africa.
Brook has been unfortunate throughout his prolific 2022 season as there’s been people in that middle order scoring runs. He’s had to wait his turn.
But injury to Jonny Bairstow means he is coming into this set-up in exactly the right batting position for him to start a Test career.
Harry Brook has been named in England's squad for the final Test against South Africa
There was talk of bringing him in to open at the start of the current series against South Africa, with Zak Crawley in the last chance saloon, but I wouldn’t have advocated that.
I believe the best place for him to start is at five, the place from where he put together a sequence of 967 County Championship runs in just eight matches.
The attacking way he plays fits the style in which the Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum regime want their players to go about their cricket.
If I had one piece of advice for him, it would be to tell him that things are not like the bad old days of England selection when I played.
