Bethell’s breakout winter boosts England’s future

Bethell’s breakout winter boosts England’s futureMedia caption, India through as England miss out on T20 final by 7 runsByMatthew HenryBBC Sport journalist in IndiaPublished21 minutes agoThere have been few undeniable successes as the dust settles on England’s winter.Will Jacks, maybe, given his role in the run to the semi-final of the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.Josh Tongue? He was England’s standout bowler in the Ashes, though only played one Test while the series was alive.There is no doubt about one, however.Jacob Bethell’s sensational century against India in Mumbai on Thursday may have come in a losing cause but it only verified the 22-year-old is England’s future.At the start of September he did not have a century in any form of professional cricket but now he has three, one in each of the formats and all of them at international level.His captain Harry Brook completed the set with his hundred against Pakistan in the Super 8s phase, while Dawid Malan and Jos Buttler are the other Englishmen to have done it before.Bethell is the youngest to get there by a distance.”Me and Brooky were joking about who was going to be the first to get all three between us,” Bethell stated.”He was like ‘You’re batting at three so it’s got to be you’ and then took my spot at three and did it. “Both of us can sit back and be very proud of ourselves but at the end of the day his came in a winning cause and mine in a losing cause. “He’ll always have that up on me but it’s been special.”McCullum wants to stay as England coach – will he get the chance?