{"id":21819,"date":"2024-11-26T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=21819"},"modified":"2024-11-26T06:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T06:29:41","slug":"jacob-bethell-will-bat-at-number-three-on-his-test-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=21819","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell will bat at number three on his Test debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FB_IMG_1732602488505.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FB_IMG_1732602488505.jpg 720w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FB_IMG_1732602488505-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FB_IMG_1732602488505-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christchurch: Jacob Bethell will bat at number three on his Test debut in England&#8217;s series opener against New Zealand in Christchurch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bethell plays after wicketkeeper Jordan Cox was ruled out with a broken thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, regular number three Ollie Pope takes the gloves and slides down the order to number six, with captain Ben Stokes at seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warwickshire left-hander Bethell has impressed in white-ball cricket for England, but was a surprise selection for this tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Root, England&#8217;s all-time leading Test runscorer, told BBC Sport: &#8220;The way his game sets up suits Test cricket. I&#8217;m really looking forward to watching him go out there and play. It&#8217;s a really exciting time for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Root&#8217;s father Matt and Bethell&#8217;s father Graham were team-mates in club cricket for Sheffield Collegiate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve known him and his family for a long time,&#8221; said Root. &#8220;I saw him play when he was 11 or 12 years old and I could tell then he was already a very accomplished player. It&#8217;s been really pleasing seeing him grow up, make his way at Warwickshire, then more recently in the white-ball stuff show everyone what a brilliant player he is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch: Jacob Bethell will bat at number three on his Test debut in England&#8217;s series opener against New Zealand in Christchurch Bethell plays after wicketkeeper Jordan Cox was ruled out&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1831,1784],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-england-cricket-board-ecb","tag-england-cricket-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21821,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions\/21821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}