There’s always tomorrow, and Jacob Bethell will be there.
Everything, apart from the scorebook, has always looked right with Bethell. Declared a prodigy since birth, he counts Sir Garfield Sobers as a family friend, Brian Lara as an advocate, and Ian Bell as a believer. Lara saw Bethell at 11 and said he was “much better” than he had been at that age. Bell called him the best 17-year-old he had ever seen. It’s high elbows. It’s popped collars. It was quality that’s been waiting for the quantity to arrive.
