Former England captain Geoffrey Boycott has asserted that the England white-ball skipper Harry Brook has the potential to be a player like the former legendary cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara.
Speaking on a podcast, Boycott showered praise on Brook for having enormous talent with excellent timing and shot-making skills. However, Brook’s reckless batting skills have frequently drawn criticism from various former players from his country.
“I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, I’ve seen a lot of players. I haven’t seen anybody with the talent he’s got for a long time. Enormous talent. The timing, the shot playing, he’s tall, big reach, but his thinking is just unbelievable,” Boycott said on the Geoffrey Boycott: An Extraordinary Innings podcast.
“If he wants to carry on playing that way, he’ll have a decent career, but he has the ability, if he could think better, to be in the realms of Lara and Tendulkar. And, whoa, that’s a bit special,” he stated.
“To be up in that stratosphere is huge. There ain’t many above them, except (Don) Bradman, and that’s special. But he plays one-day cricket to every ball. He doesn’t have a look at the ball; he has to bash the first ball. He’ll just keep getting caught at mid-off and mid-on and daft places,” he added.
Furthermore, Boycott revealed that in 2025, Brook’s uncle visited him and requested if he could assist the English skipper to help him get better. However, Boycott disclosed that the batter himself never got in touch with him until now.
“His uncle came to me last year, and he said, ‘Would you have a word with him?’ Well, he asked me what I thought of him. I told him exactly this. He said, ‘Really?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ I said that much ability is rare, special.
“He said, ‘Would you have a word with him?’ I said, ‘It’s not for me to go to him. But if he asked me, of course I’d help. Why would I not? I gave him my number and never heard a word,” Boycott concluded.
