Cricket: Bell Goes Where No Englishman has Been ; First Test
Birmingham Post › July 12, 2008
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LORD'S (first day): England 593-8 dec (I R Bell 199, K P Pietersen 152, S C J Broad 76, A N Cook 60, M Morkel 4-121) v South Africa 7-0
Ian Bell's finest day of his career ended frustratingly when he became the first England batsmen to be dismissed on 199. To add insult to injury he was caught and bowled by left-arm spinner Paul Harris who played four games for Warwickshire last year, He is only the second Test batsman to fall one short in the 21st century, and only six others have fallen similarly in the last 24 years.-, He was also one run short of back-to-back first class double hundreds in two weeks, following his first one against Gloucestershire, but the capacity crowds of the first two days, together with the extra drain on mind and body of a Lord's Test match, made yesterday the most special to date in his career.See the full content of this document
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Cricket: Bell Goes Where No Englishman has Been ; First Test
Bell's innings was a monumental effort, in which his always elegant technique was matched by an unswerving mental toughness that answered his critics who believed few of his Test runs were scored under the cosh.
He can also be...See the full content of this document
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