Harry Brook is set to earn nearly £500,000 for playing in the Hundred next year as the tournament's new investors scramble to secure their direct signings and retentions ahead of March's auctions.

Brook, who is in Noosa on England's mid-Ashes break after their eight-wicket defeat to Australia at the Gabba, has captained Northern Superchargers for the last two editions of the Hundred and has agreed a deal worth around £470,000 to stay with the team in their new guise as Sunrisers Leeds , which could make him the tournament's highest earner.

Brook is serving a two-year ban from the IPL after withdrawing from a contract with Delhi Capitals, and said when he was named England's white-ball captain last year that overseas franchise cricket would have to take "a step back". But new inves

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