“To go [to] world No.1 and England going to the semis, that would be pretty cool,” Brook said. “We’ll definitely be keeping a close eye on it [the football] and watching the game for sure.
“We’ve been told if we win the next game, we go to world No.1 and that’s definitely a prize that we’re eyeing up. India are a strong side. They probably haven’t been as good [in this series] as they have been over the last couple of years, but we’re really happy with the way that we’ve executed our plans.
“To beat India 4-0 would be a pretty special series win, if I’m being honest, and to go No. 1 in the world would be even better. That’s our main aim: we want to go out there and try and beat them convincingly again. We’ve got to go to Southampton, try and assess the conditions as well as we can – and that’s something that we’ve done really well in this series so far.”
“The white-ball side’s been on a really good path, if I’m being brutally honest,” he said. “We’ve been playing extremely good cricket. We’ve been adapting to the surfaces and conditions really well. We had a good World Cup: we just fell just short of 250 in a chase at the Wankhede, which is incredible.
“I think it [this series] might have changed the mood [around English cricket] a little bit, but we’ve still got one more game to play. Hopefully, we can go to world No. 1 and beat a very strong Indian side.”
