Powell described himself as one of a number of “facilitators” who had been there to “shape and support” the player on his journey.<\/p>\n
“You could see cricket was in his blood, cricket was part of his family,” he said.<\/p>\n
He believes Bethell honed his batting ability while facing taller opponents in Barbados.<\/p>\n
“Most of the deliveries he faced were in his upper half,” he said. “So he had to develop a way to cope with that, which he did naturally because that’s all he faced.<\/p>\n
“That’s been telling this week because he dealt with that. He plays that really well.<\/p>\n
“Once you’ve got that and that belief that you can cope with the most dangerous weapon a fast bowler has, then you can deal with the rest of it.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a very special week in the Bethell household and I think we’ve all seen live what it’s meant to Jacob himself out in the middle and also his family.”<\/p>\n
Bethell is now the fifth man to score his first first-class hundred in a Test for England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powell described himself as one of a number of “facilitators” who had been there to “shape and support”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-684670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865679541363467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}