Michael Vaughan

Not going up to fifth gear.

Just staying in second and third.

Today I hope it's a lesson to Harry that for him to bat and get big, big scores against the best in tough conditions, away from home in particular, just stay in second and third gear for a long period of time.

If you're in the right later on when you're batting with a tail, then go berserk.

Go absolutely berserk.

But

great lesson from Jacob Bethel we often see young players who brought up on white ball cricket play playing test cricket and they do play the ramps and the fancy stuff and it's kind of like a modern test match innings is kind of what we've always become used to saying you know that little flick over the shoulder or whatever there's none of that none of that at all he just played an absolutely traditional test match innings there

There wasn't one bit of funkiness about it.

He just played absolutely beautifully.

Every ball on its merits.

You could actually dust down every one of Geoffrey Boycott's favourite sayings and you could apply it to that innings.

I'll also say, full credit to the management and Luke Wright and Rob Key, whoever said right now he's going to bat number three.

Last week I looked at him and thought, what are you throwing him at three for?

At the MCG on a juicy one.

I thought it was wrong, but they've seen a lot more of Jacob than we have.

And they've gone, nah, he's got the technique to bat at number three.

So full credit for them.

You know, they've gone with it.

And now we can look down and go, yeah, we've got a number three.

You know, the last time I reckon that I've looked down at English cricket and thought, oh, I'm really confident my number three is Jonathan Trott.