Brook has been in sensational form in the LV= Insurance County Championship's early weeks, accumulating 635 runs in six innings, including three centuries
Yorkshire assistant coach Ali Maiden says Harry Brook is ready for an England Test call-up.
Brook has been in sensational form in the LV= Insurance County Championship's early weeks, accumulating 635 runs in six innings, including three centuries.
His remarkable run of scores, and first-class average of 158.75 so far this term, have prompted suggestions that he should be the man to fill the No.5 spot in the England line-up for the first Test of the summer, which is scheduled to take place against New Zealand at Lord's from June 2.
Harry Brook has been in excellent form for Yorkshire [Gareth Copley/Getty Images]
And Maiden, who has been working closely with the 23-year-old, thinks Brook has the ability and temperament to make the step up.
"I think he's ready," Maiden told the Yorkshire Post. "Harry is in incredible form and I just feel privileged watching him bat.
"You just hope that if he does get in (the England team), he gets support from the whole country, the media and that things go well for him. I'm sure they would.
HARRY BROOK: COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP SCORES IN 2022vs Gloucestershire: 101 & 56*vs Northamptonshire: 84 & 77*vs Kent: 194vs Essex: 123
"He's got a good head on his shoulders, he fits in lovely, he's got a lovely manner and I think he'd handle it.
"I don't think he'd be overawed by the occasion at all."
Brook already has experience within the senior England setup, having been a part of the white-ball tour of West Indies in January. But the clamour for red-ball inclusion has really only kicked into gear during the first five weeks of the 2022 summer.
Brook is being touted as an England Test prospect [Gareth Copley/Getty Images]
His run of scores in first-class cricket includes tons against Gloucestershire, Kent and Essex, and he has only been dismissed for a score below three figures once in six knocks - and that was for 84.
"There's been a lot of speculation about him playing for England in the last few weeks, and you see it, don't you, where all of a sudden the media are talking about young players and their scores then deteriorate," Maiden said.
"But Harry's scores keep getting better and are actually going the other way, which is a really positive sign."
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