Tailenders podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n “You’ve got to have that as a top-level sportsperson, especially in Australia. <\/p>\n
“There is a fine line between self-belief and arrogance and taking it too far and he’s still a young lad but he sort of walked out like ‘I’ve got this’ and that for me like he’s got a chance.”<\/p>\n
England’s all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson was also impressed by Bethell, and believes he has done enough to warrant a run of games at three.<\/p>\n
“I was excited about him before this Ashes series,” said Anderson.<\/p>\n
“His technique might not be there to bat number three, but he showed in that last Test that he might have the technique to have a decent run at three. Albeit on a flat wicket, but I thought he played beautifully. <\/p>\n
“I’ve seen him first hand and have seen the character that he’s got and he’s got exactly what you need to make it in Test cricket. He’s got resilience, he’s got self-belief and he’s calm. <\/p>\n
“England were behind the game in the second innings but he showed the character that he’s got. He just batted properly and like an old-school Test number three, which I thought was great.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell’s character and “front” has similarities to England great Kevin Pietersen, according to former wicketkeeper Matt Prior.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115866823781221379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685139","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=685139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}