On Sunday, Mohammed Siraj and England batter Harry Brook had a tense alternate of phrases within the center after The Englishman had struck the Hyderabad bowlers for a few boundaries. Whereas that face off ended pretty shortly, you couldn’t assist however discover that India celebrated slightly too enthusiastically when Brook was dismissed for 99, holing out to Shardul Thakur off Prasidh Krishna’s bowling.
The uneasy relationship between the outspoken Brook and India isn’t one thing new with the England white ball captain seemingly at all times at some kind of odds with the Indians.
Listed below are a number of situations:
Faces ban from IPL for subsequent 2 years
Brook pulled out of the Indian Premier League for the second 12 months working after he stated he needed to focus on his nationwide aspect. Brook was purchased by Delhi Capitals for Rs 6.25 Crore within the mega public sale in November 2024.
“I’ve made the very troublesome determination to drag out of the upcoming IPL. I apologise unreservedly to the Delhi Capitals and their supporters. I like cricket. Ever since I used to be a younger boy, I’ve dreamt of enjoying for my nation, and I’m extraordinarily grateful to have the chance to play the sport I like at this degree,” he had stated in an announcement.
“I do know not everybody will perceive, and I don’t anticipate them to, however I’ve to do what I imagine is true, and enjoying for my nation stays my precedence and focus. I stay vastly grateful for the alternatives I’ve been given and the help I obtain,” he had added.
As a consequence of this, the England participant is predicted to be banned from the IPL for the subsequent 2 seasons.
In accordance with a brand new rule launched by the IPL, “Any participant who registers within the participant public sale and after getting picked on the public sale, makes himself unavailable earlier than the beginning of the season, will get banned from taking part within the match and participant public sale for two Seasons.”
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Brook had additionally pulled out of the league in 2024 when he had misplaced his grandmother.
“While I don’t suppose I ought to must share my private causes behind this determination, I do know there can be many asking why. So I do wish to share this. I misplaced my grandmother final month – she was a rock to me and I spent an enormous quantity of my childhood in her house; my angle to life and love for cricket was formed by her and my late grandfather,” he had posted on Instagram.
This was additionally the rationale he had pulled out of the India tour in January 2024.
That interview after 100 vs KKR
Brook had additionally irked a number of folks when he stated that he was glad to close the Indian followers who had been ‘slagging’ him off earlier than he scored his first century of the 2023 season towards Kolkata Knight Riders, including that he was glad he may shut them up.
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Earlier than this century, Brook had not caught hearth within the Indian Premier League, scoring 13, 3 and 13 in his first 3 matches leading to a variety of chatter on-line in regards to the Englishman’s kind.
“You go on social media and persons are calling you garbage. There’s a variety of Indian followers on the market who’ll say nicely executed tonight. However they had been slagging me off a number of days in the past. Glad I may shut them as much as be trustworthy,” Brook stated after the match.
The smog debate
The KKR connection continued in 2025 as soon as once more when after getting bowled for 17 runs by a flawed un from Varun Chakaravarthy within the first T20I in Eden Gardens between India and England, Brook had blamed the smog in Kolkata for England’s troubles studying spin.
“With the smog the opposite night time, it was rather a lot more durable to choose. Hopefully the air is a bit clearer right here and we will see the ball a bit simpler,” Harry Brook had stated forward of the 2nd T20I in Chennai.
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In that match, Brook met an identical destiny by the hands of Chakaravarthy once more, who despatched the then England vice captain again to the hut for 13 runs.
This time when he was dismissed, India stalwarts Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri had been within the commentary sales space and didn’t cross an opportunity to deliver up Brook’s feedback.
“You don’t want the smog!” Ravi Shastri stated when Brook was bowled. “The ball simply snuck by way of and hit the stumps.”
After a brief pause, Sunil Gavaskar joined in: “Properly you stated it! The sunshine is clearer right here in Chennai. At Kolkata there was some smog. No smog right here. No concept the place the ball was going. It hit the highest of the stump. Harry Brook gone for 13. Look, is there any smog there?”