Brydon Carse spent most of last summer confined to watching cricket on television and mulling over the advice he received from Ben Stokes about how to handle his gambling ban.

Ben Duckett signalled the charge with an anarchic innings of 27 in 18 balls, while Joe Root capped his 150th Test with a no-less free-flowing 22 not out from 15. The coup de grâce was applied by Bethell in a performance of rare precocity - 50 not out from 37 balls,

While his first-class record is middling, the Durham seamer’s bright start to his Test career has shown all of the qualities that first caught the eye of captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum