Ian Higgins

It wasn't needy.

It was just a very, very cool method, um, making it look easy.

Uh, so we, we, you know, Jacob Bethel was coming.

Jacob Bethel is here.

Um, he's, he's arrived and, uh, fuck, he looks pretty fucking good.

It's amazing how in this world he can have gone from that frame you just said, where it's like, look at all the potential as yet unfulfilled, and now he scores 100 at the SCG as his first first-class 100 when everybody else is making it look much more difficult.

And then you hear that he's already captained England, and you think, oh, shit, he's achieved a lot by this age.

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this guy in one fell swoop.

And yeah, I just completely agree.

I thought it was a really accomplished innings.

And you mentioned feeling naughty.

I mean, how good and naughty must you be to bat in that manner in Brendan McCollum's England?

You know, it's like that requires you to get out in the correct way and to be imposing at all times and to overtly apply pressure.

I mean, today was like,

I've seen a lot of people say, here's the blueprint for batting into the future.

It's like, mate, if everyone could bat like that, there'd be no Baz Ball.

That's a wonderful blueprint.

But he must have some pretty serious assuredness and certitude to...

feel comfortable to play the way that he did because I didn't feel like I was watching... I was watching something more akin to the tempo of, like, Joe Root than all the other stuff that you see desperately imposed upon you.