Rest broke my momentum for the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 – Cricket News Update
England’s top-order batsman, Ian Bell, has expressed that the long break after the last season broke his momentum as a batsman and led to his downfall in the Test series against Pakistan in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE).
The Poms became the number one ranked Test team of the world last year and Bell played a massive role in this accomplishment as he was at the top of his game in 2011.
The British played a limited-overs series in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 and company
were whitewashed by the Men in Green in the three-match Test series.
Bell, who was averaging more than a 100 runs per innings last year as he scored 950 runs in just eight Tests, only managed to score 51 runs in the whole series against Pakistan and looked completely out of sorts.
The 30-year-old said that in order to stay in form, he needs to keep playing and rest does not work well for him.
The right-hander mentioned, "Going into the UAE series, we'd had two or three months off - and I felt I'd lost my rhythm completely. So batting-wise, for me if I'm batting the better I play. Personally, from a batting point of view, if I'm out in the middle
scoring runs, I want to stay scoring runs - definitely."
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 and showed great form as he scored a hundred and a half-century in the first two matches.
For the upcoming series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 are at the peak of their careers but
they must maintain their level of fitness.
“So if we want to beat the Australians, we want these guys fit and fresh and ready to go. For the three guys who play in all three forms of the game ... it's going to be crucial," Bell expressed.
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