Jacob Bethell hit the first century of his professional career as England blitzed 414 in the third ODI against South Africa – silencing some of the questions over his fast-track international promotion.
Bethell has been a fixture of England squads across all formats for the past year, and is set to become the country’s youngest captain when he takes the T20 reins in Ireland later this month, but until Sunday he had never raised his bat for a hundred in competitive cricket.
