Harry Brook stroked a masterful 317 runs in the ongoing first Test between England and Pakistan being played in Multan. He and Joe Root also added a record 454 runs for the fourth wicket, the highest partnership ever for England for any wicket in Tests.
Joe Root scored 262 runs in 375 balls with 17 fours, before getting out to Salman Agha. However, Harry Brook continued and smashed his maiden Test triple hundred and was dismissed for 317 runs in 322 balls with 29 fours and 3 sixes to his name.
Brook became only the sixth English batter to reach this feat in the longest format of the game. Andy Sandham was the first England batter in Test history to score a triple ton, scoring 325 runs. Other England batters to achieve this feat are Len Hutton (364), Wally Hammond (336 not out), Graham Gooch (333 not out) and Bill Edrich (310 not out).
He became only the first England batter to score a test triple ton in Pakistan and the second one to score a triple century in Multan. He broke Virender Sehwag’s record of 309, which the Indian opener had scored in the 2004 series.
The 25-year-old took 310 deliveries to get his first triple hundred in Test cricket, making him the second fastest-batter after India’s Virender Sehwag to reach the milestone. He did hit the fastest Test triple hundred for England, bettering Wally Hammond, off 355 balls, against New Zealand in 1933.
Though Brook bettered Sehwag’s feat of fastest triple ton in Pakistan, off 364 balls in Multan in 2004, Sehwag still holds the record for the fastest Test triple ton in 278 balls.
The 454-run partnership between Brook and Root is the highest in Test cricket history for the fourth or lower wicket, surpassing the previous highest of 449 between Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh against West Indies in 2015.
This is also the highest partnership for any wicket against Pakistan in Tests, bettering the 446-run stand between Conrad Hunte and Gary Sobers for the second wicket in 1958.
Root and Brook are the only batting pair from England to have multiple 300-plus runs partnerships in Test cricket. They also put up 302 runs together against New Zealand in Wellington in 2023.
England has become the first team to score 800+ runs against Pakistan in an innings of a Test match. The previous highest was 790/3 by the West Indies against Pakistan in 1958.
It is also the highest total by any team in Pakistan, with the previous highest bieng 765 for 6 by Pakistan against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2009.
