Follow UsAt the last possible moment, Delhi Capitals’ INR 6.2 crore signing Harry Brook pulled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, leaving DC’s middle-order hollow. DC’s mentor, Kevin Pietersen, insisted that the English youngster has a lot of technical flaws in his batting, and also revealed that the IPL would have given them enough time to work on that.
“I told him, I was like, 'Dude, I'm gutted that I can't work with you for a few months.' I think that he is a star. You don't hit one ball over extra cover and the next, same ball, over midwicket if you can't play,” said Pietersen.
Earlier this year, Brook’s worry against spin was magnified when the right-hander was consistently getting out in the five-match T20I series against India. The English batter has only scored 281 runs across 16 innings, averaging just 20.07 in India.
Brook’s last ten innings in India have been quite horrific, with scores of 2, 51, 8, 13, 17, 0, 27*, 0, 0 and 7. Across all his appearances in India, the right-hander averages 16.38, with just 15 boundaries across 101 balls.
“So he can properly play, but he has technical flaws in the subcontinent, in India, in particular. I really wanted to work with him, but people make their own choices in life and you've got to respect them,” he said.
“He has a flaw playing spin in India - a real big flaw. Two months here, imagine what might have happened if he had fixed that,” he added.