Michael Vaughan

You think, there you go, you'll see this lad in four years' time.

There'll be plenty of Australians, though, saying, where's he been?

Yeah, but, you know, the one thing about leadership is, and I was saying to you on commentary, Simon, it's very important that you're loyal.

And sometimes that loyalty and kind of consistency of selection, you get blinded and you get too emotionally attached to players.

And I'm not just pointing the finger at Olipo, but the technical side of Jacob today was so much better than what we've seen at number three.

To survive at number three, you need a strong technique.

And then you've got to have a real calm mindset because you're out there facing the bowlers when they're fresh, when the game's hot.

And you've got to have a real clear kind of game plan.

And the only way that you can have calmness, I believe, is when you've got a good technique.

Because your technique looks after you when you don't quite read the length of the ball.

You go back when you should before, but your technique and your bat swing just looks after you.

You know, your head position looks after you.

of those balls that you don't quite pick up as well that's what we've seen today because it wouldn't have been that Jacob picked up length perfectly every single time but that back flow that head position you know leaving balls getting under balls the bouncer came alright I'll duck under he wore one on his head now one flew off a length brute of a ball brute of a ball and then the next ball guess what right back in behind it straight back down the ground it was a a technical masterclass a real kind of strong mentality of calmness

which surely sends the message to many in the English game, and not just this group, but I think there's many playing the English game back in county cricket and think, oh, the basketball way is the way they go.

You dance down, you run towards the Dane, you play the reverse ramps, the tricks.

That's the way you bat in the longest format.

And by the way, he's got another gear or two to go up.

And the best players in the world, when they've got five or six gears,

In test cricket, they stay in second and third because they just like batting.

And they want to bat for a long period of time.