NASSER HUSSAIN: This may have been the toughest of Harry Brook’s three hundreds so far

That was a slightly more moderate Harry Brook century than what we saw in Rawalpindi and Multan, but these things are relative. You still look at the scoreboard and he is scoring 75 runs per 100 balls.

If anything, this was the hardest of the three hundred he’s done in this series. In the first Test, England were in charge on that first day, when Brook was one of four centurions. In the second Test, they were 350 ahead.

Here in Karachi, they clashed a bit more and Brooks had to salvage his tickets with the help of Ben Foakes. Breaking David Gower’s record for an Englishman in Pakistan is phenomenal.

Harry Brook scored his third century in as many Tests for England in Pakistan on Sunday

His punch was different than his previous two tons in that he had to rebuild with Ben Foakes.

However, it’s important to note that for all his hitting power and innovation, Brook has all the fundamentals in place. His technique is good enough to avoid all types of bowling because he has perfected his game against the red ball playing Yorkshire.

And that’s going to be very important next summer when Brook faces his biggest challenge yet: an Ashes series against Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Scott Boland armed with the Dukes ball in serviceable condition.

I fear for players who think the best way to get anywhere is by playing white ball cricket. Even Suryakumar Yadav, the new batting star of India’s limited teams, honed his game by playing red-ball cricket for several years for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy.

Brook loves to bat and has learned the fundamentals playing county cricket for Yorkshire.

Brook learned the fundamentals by playing county cricket, and he has that Yorkie love of batting. I was live the other day talking to Ian Ward in the Sky studio over Brook. He walked past me in the background and said, ‘Yeah Nas, I love to hit.’

One of his great abilities is how quickly he takes length off spinners, which he does by staying lower in his stance – he’s taller against seamers. So on slow pitches like these in Pakistan, if the slow pitchers are even a fraction short, he jumps. Then if they fill out more to compensate, he places them back on top of his head.

Even from a stationary position, it has long levers and a strong underside, so it runs by whipping it through the side of the leg. There is a touch of Kevin Pietersen in that stroke: he is almost the old Flemish of KP.

I have really enjoyed his temperament too. After he ran out of Ben Stokes, you could see he wasn’t going to let it get the best of him, just like when he hit three figures, you could see he wasn’t going to over-celebrate. Scoring runs is just what he does. In fact, it’s what he hopes to do. That attitude should serve you well in the years to come.

Brook captures the length of spinners very well – he expected to score runs by hitting

She was without her captain Ben Stokes, but responded well after being given the go-ahead.

A quick word on that burnout. You could see he was hoping the ball would go for four, so he and Stokes didn’t drive in the second run, but he later sold his captain a dummy. Stokes was about to explode but then realized it was the young gun in the middle. He cares about the team’s culture, so he gave Brook a thumbs up, which was a nice touch.

Brook apologized, but then collected his thoughts again. Other players might have overreacted to what happened. But Brook quickly moved on. He’s not going to get too depressed. Likewise, he’s not going to think that he suddenly made it.

Ever since Joe Root came to the side, English cricket has been yearning for a batsman who can come in and make our system proud. Two or three years ago at The Oval, Root turned to me and said there was one guy we should all talk about more. That guy was Brook. The way he’s played here tells you Root was right.