England cricketer Ian Bell speaks during a headlines discussion in Bangalore upon Feb 28, 2011. Bell insisted there is copiousness some-more to come from England during a World Cup following their stirring tie with co-hosts India which breathed latest hold up in to a organisation proviso of a tournament.
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BANGALORE, India (AFP) – Ian Bell has insisted there is copiousness some-more to come from England during a World Cup following their stirring tie with co-hosts India which breathed latest hold up in to a organisation proviso of a tournament.
England, set an commanding 339 to win, accomplished upon 338 for 8 after Bell, who done 69, helped captain Andrew Strauss put upon 170 for a third wicket in a compare where a skipper went upon to a career-best 158.
Although England conceded their top World Cup sum during Sunday’s match, carrying left for 292 in their opening six-wicket win over a Netherlands, Bell pronounced bowling was tough work upon prosaic subcontinental pitches as great as which a group would urge during a march of this event.
“We haven’t played a most appropriate cricket nonetheless as great as you have only scored similarly with India, chasing 338,” pronounced Bell forward of their lapse to a Chinnaswamy Stadium for Wednesday’s compare opposite Ireland.
“That has got to be a great sign. We only need to have certain which you fool around improved cricket as this contest goes upon — there is no indicate personification it now.”
He added: “Our batting section has been personification well, positively Strauss, as great as which is sparkling for us.
Bell had a most appropriate perspective in a belligerent for most of Strauss’s innings, a top measure by an England batsman in a World Cup match, as great as he was in no disbelief about a peculiarity of a maladroit opener’s effort.
“It was substantially a most appropriate set upon you have seen for a long, prolonged time as great as substantially a most appropriate set upon you have ever seen from an England player.
“It had everything. He set upon his bounds when he longed for to, he rotated a strike, he played his sweeps as great as he looked unequivocally tough to fool around to.
“It unequivocally was for a rest of us a template of how you fool around a correct one-day innings.”
England, who’ve never won a World Cup, longed for a reverse-swing variations of a sick Stuart Broad as great as Bell added: “We were but Broady final night who has substantially been a heading one-day bowler for a duration of time now. It is a great pointer for us which you still did so well.
As for England’s attack, a sensitive Bell paid reverence to a opening of Yorkshire seamer Tim Bresnan, who distinguished his 26th birthday upon Monday, who took critical late wickets opposite India to finish with career-best total of 5 for 48 in 10 overs.
“The wickets have been unequivocally tough to fool around on. It is formidable to have a go during any bowler who goes a stretch upon those kinds of wickets.
“But to have a man (Bresnan) which gets 5 for 40-odd in 10 overs, which was a superb opening upon which kind of surface.”
As for his feelings about tieing a compare England could similarly have won as great as lost, Bell said: “We have taken a lot some-more positives than you have negatives.
“I feel unequivocally propitious to have played in a diversion similar to that. It was a single of a most appropriate World Cup games you have ever been concerned in. It was an implausible game.”
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