Brook's average of 62.54 is the second highest in Test history among players with a minimum of 20 Test innings. His average is only second to the incpmparable Australian batter Sir Don Bradman, who scored 6,996 runs in 52 Tests at an average of 99.94, with 29 centuries and 13 fifties.
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday.
A round-up of Tuesday's action in the Premier League.
A summary of Sunday's action in the Premier League.
United host seventh-placed Forest on Saturday, days after their defeat to Arsenal.
Arsenal's Arteta wary of old foe Villa
Frenchman Richard Gasquet sounded a warning to Wimbledon champion Roger Federer after beating Swede Jonas Bjorkman in the final.
Defeat would have left Arsenal nine points behind Liverpool, who also have a game in hand, but the way they reacted to going behind suggests they can still be a factor in the title race.
Reader Sweta Shah sent us this photograph from Nottingham.
Forest were good value for the win, though Ipswich came close to opening the scoring midway through the first half.
Reader Snehal Shah sent us this photograph from Nottingham.
Ollie Pope reckons England can make 600 Test runs in a day's play
Images from the first One-Day International between England and Australia, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Thursday.
Arsenal moved up to second in the Premier League and within six points of Liverpool after a largely trouble-free, if slightly pedestrian, 1-0 win at home to struggling Ipswich Town on a chilly night in north London on Friday.
Manchester City were referred to an independent commission over the alleged breaches of financial regulations, which go back to the 2009-10 campaign.
A summary of Thursday's action in the Premier League.
Indian players made a positive start at the ATP Nottingham Challenger event as Somdev Devvarman recorded victory in singles while Divij Sharan and Purav Raja advanced to the doubles quarter-finals in Nottingham.
Reader Shivanand B Patil sent us this photograph from Nottingham.
Stuart Broad claimed a career-best five for 23 to help England thrash South Africa by 10 wickets in the second one-day international in Nottingham on Tuesday.
Some reporters later returned to the conference room, although local press strongly condemned the player's actions, adding to criticism of the team's poor form this season, which has left them sitting 10th in the Liga MX table.
Croatian Ivo Karlovic won the Nottingham Open for the second successive year, beating Spain's Fernando Verdasco 7-5, 6-7, 7-6.
Reader Atin Jain sent us this picture from Nottingham
A Kuwaiti family has bought twice European Cup winners Nottingham Forest, the English Championship (second division) club said on Tuesday.
From January 1, 2021 to September 9, 2024 -- during which Joe Root hit 17 centuries, Kane Williamson has hit, Steve Smith has made six tons but Virat Kohli has managed just two centuries.
Forward Rasmus Hojlund scored twice to allow Manchester United to come back from a goal down and get a 2-1 win at six-times Czech champions Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League on Thursday.
Big win against West Indies propel England past three teams in WTC table
A summary of Saturday's action in the Premier League.
With Steve McLaren at the helm, fans of former European champions, Nottingham Forest FC, tell Bikash Mohapatra they believe the historical club may secure promotion to top-flight football this season.
Root is not the only England batter to have impressed Vaughan in recent times, with the exploits of young gun Harry Brook also catching the eye of the respected commentator and Ashes-winning skipper.
Fast bowler Gus Atkinson and wicketkeeper Jamie Smith will make their red-ball debuts for England in the first of the three-match home series
In March, the United Kingdom's then sports minister Lucy Frazer called on sporting bodies in the country to reassess their rules on transgender athletes competing in women's sports to ensure fairness.
A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus had little trouble getting past China's Qinwen Zheng in a group-stage match at the WTA Finals on Saturday, prevailing 6-3, 6-4 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
IMAGES from the EPL matches played on Saturday.
The Cypriot fired nine aces and won 73 per cent of his service points to overcome Ferrer in an enthralling contest that lasted one hour and 30 minutes.
Images from Day 2 of the second Test between England and the West Indies, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Friday.
Leandro Trossard transformed the mood at Arsenal with the winning goal as they recovered from an early setback to beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 at home.
IMAGES from the second Test between England and the West Indies in Nottingham on Thursday.
AC Milan will have to be perfect defensively when they host Premier League side Liverpool in their Champions League opener at San Siro, manager Paulo Fonseca said on Monday.
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