MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Jacob Bethell ‌was not supposed to be England's headline act in the fourth test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but ‌he looked like a player who belonged when the tourists made their nervous chase for victory ‌against Australia.

Replacing the dropped Ollie Pope at number three, 22-year-old Bethell had appeared on a hiding to nothing in Melbourne on a difficult pitch in front of a record crowd of 94,000.