Harry Brook ripped through the Surrey middle-order in a County Championship game at Leeds.
Brook wrecks Sussex middle-order after Yorkshire enforce follow-on
Yorkshire captain Jonny Bairstow asked Sussex to bat again at Headingley after George Hill (4-34) and Matthew Revis (3-45) bowled out the visitors 282 runs behind Yorkshire’s first-innings total. The margin would have larger had No.9 Sean Abbott not hit a 61-ball 56 to lift Sussex from 93-7 to 204.
Captain Rory Burns fell early after Sussex batted a second time, but Dom Sibley and Ryan Patel took the score to 49-1. Then Patel drove Brook to cover. Two balls later, he beat Jamie Smith’s defence to hit the stumps.
After Revis had Dan Lawrence played-on, Brook had Adam Thomas caught at cover, leaving Sussex reeling at 57-5. They went to stumps at 83-5 with Sibley on 33 and Josh Blake on 15.
Brook has figures of 7.1-3-11-3. He will have his career-best haul in first-class cricket if he concedes fewer than three runs (or takes another wicket). He has been bowling more than usual this summer: the 23.1 overs in 2026 are the second-most he has sent down in a season, after the 82.1 in 2021, and more than what he has bowled across the last four English summers combined.
Harry Brook’s wicket-taking spells in first-class cricket
| Spell | Team | Opposition | Venue | Season | Comments |
| 14-2-54-1 | Yorkshire | Somerset | Scarborough | 2017 | |
| 12-4-15-1 | Yorkshire | Kent | Canterbury | 2021 | |
| 4-2-2-1 | Yorkshire | Kent | Leeds | 2021 | |
| 8-2-15-3 | Yorkshire | Glamorgan | Cardiff | 2021 | |
| 4-0-14-1 | |||||
| 8-1-24-1 | Yorkshire | Sussex | Leeds | 2021 | |
| 8-0-25-1 | England | New Zealand | Wellington | 2022/23 | Test |
| 7.1-3-11-3 | Yorkshire | Surrey | Leeds | 2026 | Ongoing |
