Likewise. His 2103 Ashes series is easily forgotten by too many folks, but we'd have lost it without his contributions. And not many English batsmen have hit three hundreds in a single Ashes series, so he's in pretty decent company.
I'm happy enough with my post which more or less said "he should be dropped but I'm a fan and he should be back soon". Playing at the time wasn't doing him or the team any good really; he had the batting equivalent of the yips on that tour.
I think the 2013 series would be better remembered if it wasn't for the return Ashes in Oz happening just a few months later which was obviously far more consequential. I thought the 2013 series was excellent in its own right and you're not overstating it when you say England would have lost a series which they won 3-0 if it wasn't for Bell. All 3 wins were built on Bell centuries, 2 of which came from losing positions when he came out to bat. The finest hour for a very good batsman.
Yeah, looking back without context makes some of the posts here look worse than they probably were.
Haha now I understood this post after looking at the OP of the thread
how's PEWS saying Runako Morton was at the end of the road before he died in a road accident three years later. poor taste imoEven Morton?
love it
Mate I'm an Essex fan and still believe that could have been true!!
22 Test centuries and averaging over 40 against all Test nations other than NZ.
He's talking about Bopara
Only actually averaged 35.41 versus yer crims too:
