There have been much debate as to who the best player in the world is at the moment. A strong case can be made for Virat Kohli, who has amassed heaps of runs in all formats of the game, and is the leading run-scorer among all active international players. Jasprit Bumrah, too, falls in this conversation, as he is a threat to batters in all formats of the game, and is being considered among the greatest fast bowlers of all time. However, England batting great Joe Root has named one of his teammates surprisingly as the best player in the world at the moment.

In the press conference after the victory in the second Test, Joe Root said that his teammate Harry Brook is the best player in the world. This is because he can absorb pressure and in turn apply it. He can smack spinners and pacers with the same ease

"Brooky (Harry Brook) is by far and away the best player in the world at the minute. He can absorb pressure, he can apply it. He can whack you over your head for six. He can scoop you over his head for six. He can smack spin. He can smack seam," Root said.

Root also said that Brook's partnership with someone like an Ollie Pope, makes it very difficult for opposition bowlers to stop the flow of runs.

"He's so hard to bowl to and dovetailed with someone like Pope, who's extremely busy and scoring in awkward areas, [which] makes it very difficult to stop the flow of runs. I think they just played exceptionally well together," he added.

Harry Brook was the Player of the Match in the second Test, having scored 129 in the firsti innings and 55 in the second. In the first match too he was exceptional scoring 171 in the first innings. He has thus slammed two centuries and a fifty in his three innings in the New Zealand series so far.

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