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Michael Vaughan

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Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Gus Atkinson did it recently.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Stuart Broad back in 2012.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

And Jack Russell in 1989.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Um, it's the ninth youngest, um, player to make a century for England in all test cricket and eight more runs.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

He'll be the second youngest England player to make 150 after Len Hutton.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

So, uh, truly extraordinary, uh, performance.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Um,

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Less good from some of the rest of England's batting line-up.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Some odd series.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Joe Root, two fine centuries, but seven scores under 20.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Ben Stokes, six single-figure scores, eight scores under 20 in the series.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

And Harry Brook, one of the oddest series in England players ever, had seven scores of 30 or more.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

Only the second England player to have seven scores of 30 or more in a series in Australia since 1971.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

and three dismissals in the 40s, two in the 30s, and one for 52, just the 84 in the first innings, anything more major than that.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

First England player who's had that combination in an Ashes series since Len Braund in 1907-08.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

And one of the fifth Ashes opener.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

who's played five tests in a series without reaching fifth for England, sixth in all ashes.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

So a lot of disappointments for England across the series, but a truly fantastic and auspicious innings from Jacob Bethel.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

OK, thanks very much, Andy.

Test Match Special
The Ashes: Bethell hundred provides belated bright spark

So much content on BBC Sounds for you to listen to, including Andy's TMS Ashes quiz and the Ashes Top Ten.