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*Official* First Test at Trent Bridge

ajdude

ajdude

International Coach
just had a great idea, clarke should put all the fielders lining up down the pitch either side of the batsman (4 on one side, 5 on the other) and force them to run down the middle.

you are a ****ing joke dar.
 
Cabinet96

Cabinet96

Hall of Fame Member
Prince EWS said:
Spot on. The stereotype will never die though. Even when people point out, at the start of a Bell innings, that it's an important situation and a chance to shake his reputation and he goes on to make some runs, the best he gets is an acknowledgement of it being "uncharacteristic" before everyone goes back to saying the same stuff the next time he goes out to bat. Maybe if he did it in the Ashes it'd change perceptions a bit but I still doubt it; after all he's played a gritty, important knock in an Ashes decider before - at #3 no less - and no-one ever brings that up.

His main problems of late have been a couple of extended runs of poor form/low confidence and a tendency for soft dismissals. Soft dismissals meaning the actual mode of dismissal not the amount of pressure or lack thereof in the situation. Even the soft dismissals have begun to get a bit exaggerated though; it seems that no matter how Bell actually gets out these days the reaction here is always "hahahahahaha typical Bell!", even if it's a standard caught behind defending an outswinger or something equally as routine for a top order bat. Any number of things - soft dismissals, getting out between 20 and 40, getting out to a spinner, making runs after someone else already has, not making runs when no-one else has, getting out just before the close of play, scoring a run on the off side, getting out to a bowler with two legs etc etc - have been attributed to "typical Bell" but it's easy to make a stereotype fit when it apparently encompasses about 80% of all dismissals of any player.
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I can't remember who it was, but when talk was up about Bell potentially being dropped for the Australia tour, they said that he did have previous success in Australia, but it was all easy runs. Which is pretty harsh given his most notable performances in the last series came during England's only two batting collapses.

The whole soft dismissal thing really started to piss me off during the one dayers earlier in the season. It's almost like people were expecting him to only ever get out to jaffa's, even when trying to up the run rate. Chipping it to cover on a road in a test match is soft, getting out caught on the edge of the circle during the slog of a one dayer isn't.
 
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