After falling behind by a huge margin in the first innings, England did not have a very special start in the second innings. Jack Crawley (1) and Joe Root (6) were out cheaply and Ben Duckett scored 42 runs. In such a situation, Bethel batted brilliantly and took control of the innings and gave the team the lead.
When Bethel scored his century, his family was also present in the stadium. After completing his century, the entire family was seen dancing with joy and his father also had tears in his eyes. His family’s reaction is going viral on social media.
Let us tell you that Jacob’s father Gramah Bethel has played youth cricket in Barbados.
During this century innings, he also made a special record. He became the fifth England player to score his maiden first-class century in a test match. Earlier, only the names of Henry Wood, Jack Russell, Stuart Broad and Gus Atkinson were included in this list.
Apart from this, he has become the youngest batsman of England to score a Test century in Sydney. He accomplished this feat at the age of 22 years and 76 days. In this list he left Mike Atherton behind. His century came while batting at number 3. Before him, Jonathan Trott had scored a century while batting at this number for England in the Ashes in 2010.
Let us tell you that this is only the second test match of the series for Bethel. He did not get a chance in the first three matches. He got the chance in place of Ollie Pope who scored 125 runs in six innings in the series. Whereas Bethley has scored more runs than him in this only innings.
