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insidetrack IndiaJune 25, 2025

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How a village of 7000 raised England cricket’s Prince Harry Brook
England’s Harry Brook plays a shot during day three of the first cricket test match between England and India at Headingley in Leeds, England, Sunday, June. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Saturday was the year’s longest day but at the village Burley-in-Wharfedale club they wanted it to be longer. They had won an important league game and the boy from their village Harry Brook, playing a Test about 14 miles away, was unbeaten at stumps on Day 2 at Headingley. The bar was busy, laughs kept emerging from tables with families. No one wanted to call it a day.
After furiously talking about cricket, players and members got involved in some fun football. A little boy, of around five, tirelessly chased the ball and everyone indulged him. Brook was that boy not many years back. Now, he is England’s big batting hope, white-ball captain and clearly the heir-apparent prince to Test skipper, Ben Stokes.
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