The Ashes Daily: Bethell's maiden century gives England faint hope
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What were the highlights of Jacob Bethel's maiden century?
For a left start, that is from Crawley. Chris Wokes nails it to four. The Ashes alive and Test cricket alive. Ice in his veins, Pat Cummins has led his team to a famous victory. Yeah, he's got it! He gets it! England's captain Ben Stokes, while he is there, England have... Put the beer away, put the champagne on ice.
24 years of pain in Australia, finally they're beaten at home by England.
End of the fourth day, the Sydney Cricket Ground, and only one place to start today, Nass, and that is with young Jacob Bethel, who played quite magnificently.
He did, and I just thought it was such a lovely moment there because he took quite some time to work his way through the 90s, as he should. He looked composed through the 90s as he did all day. And then when he clipped it over mid-wicket and to see his mum with a big beaming smile on her face, dad holding back the tears, I thought that was such an emotional moment. First Test 100, obviously first Ashes 100, first First Class 100, and to do it at the Sydney Cricket Ground. We love this ground. England players love this ground. Jacob Bethel will always love this ground because this is where he came of age.
Absolutely. You never forget your first Test 100. I mean, as you say, it's his first first-class 100. So when he nudged one and got to 97, he was in completely uncharted... territory and there aren't too many out and out batters who will have scored their first test 100 as their maiden first class 100 kumar sanga car our mate did it as well but he should imagine it had been wicked keeping at that stage as well but his mum and dad graham and giselle were in the brawongle stand they were watching on other family as they were there as well so it was a very emotional moment although he remained pretty cool he seems a pretty cool customer to me
as he did throughout. He has that combination of cool, calm, but confident. I mean, I did the interview with him a couple of days before the test match. And I asked him, does he follow social media? And if he's had a good day, will he have a little sneak look at it? And he just turned to me and went, I won't have a look at it because I know I'm pretty good. I don't need other people telling me. And that might strike a bit of confidence or arrogance.
How did England's performance change after Bethel's innings?
I don't have a problem with that at all. He has that sort of inner confidence that you can just see from the individual. Every time you see him, even in practice, he has that confidence. And then you put that into his calmness and composure. If you compare it to someone like Ollie Pope, who he's coming in for, Ollie always looked frenetic at the crease. I think Jacob Bethel played more forward stationery, forward defences today, I'm not going to do it left-handed, than Ollie Pope, who was jabbing at the ball, right hip coming through. And I think that just sends a message to everyone of I'm in control. But yet he got the tempo of his batting. A lot of this England side has been talking about tempo too hard, not hard enough.
I thought he just got... It was an old-fashioned... test match. I mean the biggest confidence compliment I can give him was it was the sort of innings you'd expect David Gower to play. You bowl him a good ball he'll defend and you bowl him a bad ball and he'll put it away. It was just an old fashioned number three innings and it was lovely to watch.
It's funny you mention David Gower because I had a clear memory really. I was here 35 years ago in an Ashes Test 1991 when David got A lovely 100, one of his best.
You said it was one of the best you've seen.
I was only 21 at the time. So these things always stay with you. But David got 18 test hundreds and it was one of his loveliest. And, you know, I had just an image of that. I was 22 yards away for a lot of it because I got a few as well that day. But obviously it was further away this time in the press box. But I had so many little flashbacks to that. Obviously left handed, curly hair.
blonde but not really blonde but you know almost um and so yeah i had a few flashbacks and you know and the way that he played yeah and you know the family as well and the backstory what will they be like i mean they must have been so nervous watching that how proud will they
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