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Brook would accept 'honour' of Test captaincy

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Harry Brook says he would accept the England Test captaincy and believes it is possible to lead the country in all three formats.

Harry Brook would judge the England Test captaincy and believes it is imaginable to pb the state successful each 3 formats.

England are looking for a caller Test skipper aft Ben Stokes' status and Stokes gave his "100%" backing to Brook becoming his successor.

Brook told BBC Sport: "I don't deliberation you tin crook down being an England Test captain.

"It would beryllium an honour and a privilege to beryllium Test skipper – the pinnacle of our sport.

"It's not up to maine to marque that decision. It's up to radical good supra me. I'd beryllium blessed to bash it if I did get asked."

Brook, 27, was named England white-ball skipper past twelvemonth and was promoted to Stokes' vice-captain successful the Test broadside for past winter's Ashes tour.

As Stokes' deputy, helium is an evident campaigner to go the 83rd antheral to pb England successful Test cricket, with possibly Stokes' predecessor Joe Root the lone alternative.

But Brook already has a dense workload arsenic 1 of England's multi-format players, the demands of which are highlighted by the turnaround from the Test bid against New Zealand ending connected Monday to a five-match T20 bid against India opening astatine Chester-le-Street connected Wednesday.

The engaged docket meant Brook lone met all-rounder James Coles, who has been fixed his maiden call-up to an England squad, for the archetypal clip astatine grooming connected Tuesday.

The past antheral to simultaneously pb England successful each 3 formats was Andrew Strauss, successful 2009. Strauss' spell successful complaint of the T20 broadside lasted for 1 match.

Asked if it is imaginable to beryllium a three-format captain, Brook replied: "I deliberation it is possible. I'm not saying it would beryllium easy, but I decidedly bash deliberation it is possible.

"The information I don't play franchise cricket means determination are periods successful my calendar erstwhile I wouldn't beryllium playing cricket.

"I'd beryllium focussing connected my fittingness and getting acceptable to play each 3 formats, which has been a imagination of excavation since I could talk oregon walk. If I americium oregon I'm not skipper for England successful Test cricket, I'd beryllium blessed to conscionable inactive beryllium playing for England."

England XI for archetypal T20 v India connected Wednesday: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Harry Brook (captain), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood, Saqib Mahmood.

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