It was an innings that was as charmed as it was calculated and powerful, the product of four chances going down on a day when the usually reliable New Zealanders grassed six overall.
Brook may have cashed in on some profligacy lives handed to him on 18, 41, 70 and 106, but all that mattered was England's 319 for five in reply to New Zealand's 348 all out.
Brook slightly sheepish about Ollie Pope falling to a frankly absurd one-handed gully catch from Glenn Phillips that drew gasps from the crowd.
It was all just so uncharacteristic, with these Teflon Kiwi hands previously so adhesive in India; one of the many facets that underpinned their historic 3-0 victory three weeks ago.
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