Centurion Ollie Pope praises innings of Yorkshire hero Harry Brook as England fight on against India

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00:00England test batsman Ollie Pope has praised Yorkshire and England's Harry

00:04Brook for scoring 99 against India at Headingley in Leeds and bringing them

00:09back into contention in the match. Yeah I mean it was unbelievably skilled even

00:14I think the the pool shot he hit in that first over for six I was like where did

00:19that come from? Like everyone knows what a fantastic player Harry is and I think

00:24tried to be able to sort of put a guy like Jasper Boomer off his pace a

00:28little bit with a shot like that early on obviously shows the confidence that he

00:32has in his game and and it is obviously well well thought out as well so no I

00:37think that was an unbelievable knock and I think he read the situation really well

00:41I think he obviously took on that newer ball about it he batted for a while with

00:46that softer ball and still hit some strong shots but with the newer ball you

00:50be as aware that it was going to nip a little bit but I think he really made the

00:54most of that and that was a really important knock to get us obviously just

00:57seven behind rather than a little bit more I think where his all of his best

01:01knocks he's pretty much done that I think you look at how he played in New

01:05Zealand in those two hundreds that he made their own pitches that were offering a

01:10fair bit. And Leeds United's new signing Lucas Nemecha has made very clear that he

01:16loves scoring goals and will look to provide them for the club in the new

01:21Premier League season that is to come in August. Yeah I'm a striker but I'm quite

01:26variable in where I can play but definitely a link up type of play I like to make

01:32runs in behind and most importantly I love scoring goals. Yeah and that's it and

01:37getting yourself you know back playing against regularly you've not come here to

01:40make up the numbers like every player who joins a club you want to you want to

01:43come in and make it make a big impact? Yeah of course I mean I think every

01:47player comes in wanting to do their thing but I'm definitely dedicated and working

01:52hard ready ready for for the start of the season. And how excited are you now for

01:56that next step then I suppose it's pre-season most players kind of you know

02:00can't wait for just just getting going against how excited is to meet with the

02:04new players? Yeah definitely I wish we could get going now but we still have a few

02:08weeks of pre-pre-season getting the runs in and all that but I can't wait to to start training.