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Ian Bell

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As much as I have stuck up for him in the past, he is starting to annoy a little.

Before every big game he feels the need to come out and say how the team needs to improve but he has confidence blah blah

Why dont he try worrying about how own crap form and start performing in one day cricket
 

essex boy said:
As much as I have stuck up for him in the past, he is starting to annoy a little.

Before every big game he feels the need to come out and say how the team needs to improve but he has confidence blah blah

Why dont he try worrying about how own crap form and start performing in one day cricket
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Agreed. He's a poor ODI batsman, too one-dimensional and seems to make no effort to expand his repetoire to adapt.
 
never seems to come under criticism yet never makes big runs and bats at a slow rate. Always hear how good he is at spin and he can go over the top, I think he has gone over the top twice all tournament and looked poor against the spinners.

averages 36 so far which isn't too bad but has a strike rate of 80 which isn't good. for the pitches he has got runs on.

Hopefully he will come good as we will need him too if we are to progress
 
I'm a fan of Bell, I think he's a great batsman but he's been found wanting badly in this World Cup and his ODI place should come under threat.

And knowing the ECB, they'll probably open the batting with him in Colombo.
 
Aleem Dar said:
I'm a fan of Bell, I think he's a great batsman but he's been found wanting badly in this World Cup and his ODI place should come under threat.

And knowing the ECB, they'll probably open the batting with him in Colombo.
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Then drop him against Sri Lanka the summer then recall him against India :lol:
 
The Breen Machine said:
Agreed. He's a poor ODI batsman, too one-dimensional and seems to make no effort to expand his repetoire to adapt.
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That's the important thing. Strauss has obviously worked on his ODI batting, and it's paid off. Bell needs to do the same otherwise his place will come under threat.
 
Bell in ODI cricket just seems to play the wrong shot at the wrong time but looks a million dollars b4 getting out
 
essex boy said:
Bell in ODI cricket just seems to play the wrong shot at the wrong time but looks a million dollars b4 getting out
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I havent seen a great deal of this tournament but it seems to me that on some good pitches he has been starting too slowly and then getting out playing a poor shot when trying to up his run rate. He is more than capable of scoring at close to a run a ball from the beginning of his innings but he has been getting himself bogged down.

I'm not sure the mental processes are there for a lot of our players at the moment and it comes down too a daft workload.
 
rentaghost said:
I havent seen a great deal of this tournament but it seems to me that on some good pitches he has been starting too slowly and then getting out playing a poor shot when trying to up his run rate. He is more than capable of scoring at close to a run a ball from the beginning of his innings but he has been getting himself bogged down.

I'm not sure the mental processes are there for a lot of our players at the moment and it comes down too a daft workload.
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Bell and Prior have been poor for most of their one day careers, so not sure work load is applicable
 
essex boy said:
Bell and Prior have been poor for most of their one day careers, so not sure work load is applicable
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I'd agree with that. Approx 160 ODI's between them, Prior still averages 22 and Bell has a strike rate of 75, also only 1 hundred between them.

Just not good enough, time to look elsewhere and I'm really not sure why the selectors suddenly brought Prior back into the ODI squad when Davies hadn't put a foot wrong.
 
The Breen Machine said:
I'd agree with that. Approx 160 ODI's between them, Prior still averages 22 and Bell has a strike rate of 75, also only 1 hundred between them.

Just not good enough, time to look elsewhere and I'm really not sure why the selectors suddenly brought Prior back into the ODI squad when Davies hadn't put a foot wrong.
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maybe he was giving Jimmy the eye when he was running into bowl hence why Jimmy has bowled a pile of shite
 
essex boy said:
Bell and Prior have been poor for most of their one day careers, so not sure work load is applicable
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I agree. I have made the same point myself in the past, both are capable but both fail to produce far too often. However I think all players would have performed better with a more balanced preparation coming into the series.
 
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