Michael Vaughan

I've got a theory here.

I think Jacob Bethel is a very lucky young man that he's playing now and didn't play at the start of last summer when Baz Ball was still mad.

And I'm not sure he could have come out and played like that.

But now he can.

Times are changing.

And he's played a proper number three test innings there.

Lovely footwork.

Right forward.

Right back.

He didn't play a crazy shot at all.

This is a youngster who's been picked largely on what he's done in T20 cricket.

And he's completely changed his game.

He's got a handful of first-class games behind him.

You know he's never scored 100 and all that stuff.

But he's completely changed his game.

He's remodelled himself to suit the occasion without any of that noise in his head.

Not any of that nonsense about going out and...

run towards danger whatever the stuff has been over the last couple of years I think he's lucky that he didn't play earlier in the summer he can now come in now when things are changing and play like that with none of that sort of outside noise or pressure he'll score runs at a good rate anyway when he has to but I just thought that was a really beautiful innings and Michael's right it's the first time we've smiled for a while just to actually sit back and watch that and really feel proud we'll jump down the corridors here outside the commentary boxes and

For the last few weeks, he'd been shuffling into the ABC in our case, or Michael into Fox, and go in there a bit apologetically.

No, I called his hundred on ABC radio, did it really proudly, with toughers.