The 21 -year -old England National Cricket Team batting at all -rounder Jacob Bethel finally broke its first hundred in professional cricket.
Jacob Bethel slammed a wonderful centenary in the third and final ODI of the series against the South Africa National cricket team at Rose Bowl in Southampton.
Jacob Bethel hit 76-gent tons
Young all -rounder Bethel has been at the end of heavy criticism after not performing the expected performance in the last few matches.
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Bethel did not look impressive in hundred 2025 and launched an ODI series against Proties with a score of 1, and the hosts suffered a crushed defeat in the match.
In the second match, Jacob Bethel gave much better performance and scored 58 runs taking a wicket, but the three Lions also lost the game that won a series of South Africa.
Meanwhile, in the third ODI, Bethel started well after coming out to bat at number 4 after a good start from the top-order batsmen.
He played a positive brand of cricket from the beginning and punished bad balls for registering one in fifty in 48 delivery. Jacob Bethel decided to accelerate further, and he completed his amazing century off 76 balls with 11 fours and 3 sixes.
He played a cover-drive for four to reach his first ton in professional cricket and became the second youngest Centurion in ODIs for England after David Gover.
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To make an OD ton hit to the youngest England men’s players:
21Y 55D – David Gover vs Pakistan, 1978
21Y 309 D – David Gover vs. Australia, 1979
21y 319D – Jacob Bethel vs South Africa, 2025
22y 97d – Craig Caseveer vs. Bangladesh, 2010
22Y 239D – Alastair Cook vs India, 2007
Watch: Jacob Bethel completed his first hundred in professional cricket
What a moment
What talent
A dream is true @IGCOM , #ENGVSA pic.twitter.com/9nkemq4dnd– England Cricket (@NglandCrick) September 7, 2025
I probably should play a little more – Jacob Bethel
Bethel has not recently played a lot of domestic matches and has been included in only four matches – three in T20 blasts and one in the county championships – the start of the Test series against India in June and their inclusion for the fifth Test.
Bethel is facing criticism for this, and he addressed it while talking to Sky Sports before the third ODI. He said that he ignores the noise outside, but admitted that he should have played more cricket. Bethel said:
“There is a little noise, but I don’t hear it much. If I am honest, I probably should have played a little more when I was not playing in Test matches, but it’s something that I will take and I will learn from it.
“Even though I didn’t play much in that test series, I was around a lot of groups for it, and just to see a high-octane test chain as was incredible. I got a chance in the previous test and could not go there unfortunately and put it in a demonstration, but I loved it. [the summer]Playing for England is a dream true and hopefully I can do it for a long time to come.
Bethel said, “Now I see what I have and there is a lot of cricket, so that I can really be a little good for me.”
