Harry Brook revealed what fired up England’s gamers on Day 5 of the Lord’s Check towards India.There have been various speaking factors throughout England’s 22-run win over India at Lord’s, however Brook mentioned the “too good” remark by head coach Brendon McCullum gave Ben Stokes and co. the additional motivation they wanted.“He truly mentioned a couple of days earlier than that we’re too good typically,” Brook informed BBC Sport.“I introduced it up the evening earlier than the final day: ‘Baz mentioned the opposite day we’re too good. I feel tomorrow is the right alternative to essentially get caught into them.’“It got here on the good time. The chance that arose for us to not be the good guys was due to what they did the evening earlier than.
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“We watched two of our guys on the market on their very own, going again on the Indians after they had been going at them. We simply thought, ‘we’re not standing for that.’“We had a dialog and mentioned, ‘it’s time to not be these good guys that we now have been earlier than.’”Brook, who made his Check debut below McCullum and has now been appointed England’s white-ball captain, defined why England are attempting to shed the “good guys” tag.
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“At Lord’s, we had a dialog and thought it was the right alternative to cease being the good guys we’ve been for the previous three years,” he mentioned.“To go on the market and put them below extra stress than what they’ve in all probability confronted earlier than.“I don’t assume it’s towards the spirit of cricket. We weren’t being private, we weren’t being nasty—we had been simply placing them below extra stress.“We weren’t going on the market effing and jeffing at them or being nasty individuals. We had been simply going about it in the precise method.”
