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Originally Posted by Ernest N would England be better off playing a player other than Bell (England need a sticket like Butcher/Thorpe) |
But Ern, Bell is a sticker like Thorpe and Butcher (I would say Butch started off as a flamboyant opener and adapted)..
You have written a guy off at just 25, with a Test average of over 40.. you have never come up with a reason why apart from:-
1. He hasn't done it in the Ashes - well neither did a generation of English players throughout the 90's!! Despite the fact that he was of the most consistent batters during the Ashes.
2. You think he has a problem with pace - yet scored a hundred against Pakistan with Akhtar playing (the quickest bowler in the world)
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2...24NOV2005.html
If you can name another sub-30 player with a Test average of over 40, and more than five Test hundreds - who is not in the Test team, and could bat in place of Bell - then I will back you all the way...