It’s going to be hard to whack us says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 - Cricket News Update
In-form English Opener, Ian Bell, is looking forward to perform well against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in the upcoming One Day series, claiming that his side are in good shape and will provide a stern test for the tourists, owing to the quality possessed in the pace bowling
department.
The Poms have been thoroughly impressive in gunning down http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, winning the Test series by a 2-0 margin before securing similar fate in the ODI arena.
Their victories have come on the back of some special performances with both, bat and ball. After a relatively slow start to the year, Bell found timely form in the longer version which helped him to cement a place in the ODI format as well, following the
retirement of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806.
He then repaid the faith shown by the selectors, scoring a century on his return to the limited-overs side, before adding another fifty in the subsequent ODI, which further saw him share a 122-run stand with skipper, Alastair Cook.
With the final ODI against the Windies washed out due to rain, the focus now shifts on the bouts against the Aussies, where Bell is hopeful of emulating his recent success.
"If we can do that more often than not we've got that middle-order firepower to get the good scores,” said Bell after solidifying his place as an regular opener to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026.
"I just wanted to watch the ball and luckily I felt in pretty good form from the Test matches. I believed if I could just carry on that type of form then I could score runs in the one-day format that was important to me,” added Bell.
Having in-form batsmen who can perform at will, the English side also has a deadly bowling line-up with swing-king, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 sharing the burden through his quality spin.
With such depth at their disposal, Bell reckons that the Aussies will find it hard to score runs.
"With good scores on the board we've already seen in this series, with five world-class bowlers, it's going to be hard to whack us around the pitch."
The first One Day International will be played at the 29th of June ’2012 at the Lord’s cricket ground.
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