The universe seems conspiring to fulfill Harry Brook's World Cup dreams and the 24-year-old is likely to make his tournament debut replacing Ben Stokes, who is nursing a minor hip injury, in Thursday's opener against New Zealand in Ahmedabad.
, who has been marked out as a future superstar of the game because of his explosive batting.his shock one-day retirement to return to the squad, has not yet been ruled out of what would be a re-match of the 2019 final but skipper Jos Buttler revealed why England's number four batter was not fully fit.
"He's got a slight niggle with his hip. Fingers crossed that it will be good news for us," Buttler told reporters at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Wednesday.Test captain Stokes, who has long been nursing a troublesome knee, is back in the one-day setup purely as a batter and hisEngland are naturally wary of rushing him so early in a six-week long tournament."It's not the time to take big risk on someone at the start of the tournament.
Brook, an automatic pick in England's test side and part of their T20 World Cup winning team last year, is likely to be the beneficiary of circumstances. "Harry, we all know, what a fantastic player he is. The start of his international career has been outstanding in T20 cricket and in the test format," Buttler said."It would allow him to bat for a long time and make big runs and that's something he enjoys doing.
"He's got all the shots. We know from test cricket, he can play big innings. So it's a format that should suit him really well."
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