Comments on: Hate Ian Bell?

By: shakester

shakester — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:47:05 +0000

ah! bell, changderpaul, chest, joints. wonderful.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:04:52 +0000

Sorry. I might have had a couple of strong ales by then, and read up on the shower in the WIndies.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:38:35 +0000

Ged Ladd –

Agreed. He needs a wake-up call. He needs to go back to Warwickshire and score 1,500 runs. God knows we need him.

Nobody is saying he doesn’t try. But there is something about him that is becoming intensely annoying.

He just doesn’t seem to have the stomach for a fight,

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:47:50 +0000

Mahinda exaggerates for effect, but not all that much.

Why on earth isn’t Owais Shah playing this test match in Bell’s place?

I too think that Bell can make a solid England career for himself, but I also think that a stint on the sidelines might be just what the lad needs to kick-start the second half of his England career.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:25:22 +0000

I want to like Ian Bell. I really do. I want them to name an end after him. What taints my Bell experience is the way that he, more than most others, epitomises all that’s gone wrong with English cricket after The Ashes 2005.

The complacency. The attitude that an England shirt is yours to keep. The unjustified swagger. The feeling that the job was done, everyone had OBEs, and could therefore just relax for the rest of their cricketing careers.

Grrrrr unto them. All of them.

No-one wants a repeat of the mid- to late-’90s…but it’s gone too far. Central contracts were a good idea, but now they’re an obstruction to competition.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:50:11 +0000

I’d like Bell more if he wasn’t a soft ginger shite.

By: horatius

horatius — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:12:01 +0000

Besides, all he has to say is “bat as long as you can” to get hopeless tail-enders to score centuries. Now, that’s a Lord Megachief. He don’t need no swagger.

He makes swagger his bitch everyday.