Ian Bell is a cricketer who represents the England cricket team.[1] He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on 22 and 4 occasions respectively.[2][3] As of November 2015, he has played 118 Tests and 161 ODIs for England, scoring 7,727 and 5,416 runs respectively.[1]
Bell made his Test debut in 2004 in the fourth Test against the West Indies at The Oval, scoring 70 in a ten-wicket England victory.[4] His first century came a year later against Bangladesh at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street.[5] His highest Test score is 235 against India at The Oval.[6] Bell has scored Test centuries at fifteen cricket grounds, including seven at venues outside England.[7][8] He has scored his twenty-two Test centuries against eight different opponents; he is most successful against Australia, Pakistan and India, with four against each. England have never lost a test match in which Bell has scored a century.[9] His dismissal for 199 against South Africa in July 2008 made him just the seventh batsman to lose his wicket on that score in Test cricket.[10] As of November 2015, Bell is joint twenty-eighth among all-time Test century makers,[2][A] and joint third in the equivalent list for England.[11]
Bell's ODI debut came in 2004 against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, a match England won by five wickets. He scored 75 runs in the match, and received the man of the match award.[12] His first century came three years later at the Rose Bowl, Southampton, scoring an unbeaten 126 in a 104-run victory over India.[13] His highest ODI score is 141 against Australia at the Bellerive Oval, Hobart in 2015.[14] Following the conclusion of the 2015 Ashes series, Bell announced his retirement from ODI cricket.[15]
Bell has played eight Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, without scoring a century,[16] his highest score being 60 not out.[1] As of 2015, Bell is joint forty-sixth—with Garfield Sobers, Marcus Trescothick and David Boon—in the list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined.[17]
- ^ a b c "Player profile: Ian Bell". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Records – Test records – Batting records – Most hundreds in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Records – ODI records – Batting records – Most hundreds in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "West Indies tour of England, 4th Test: England v West Indies at The Oval, 19–21 August 2004". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Bangladesh tour of England, 2nd Test: England v Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street, 3–5 June 2005". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "India tour of England, 4th Test: England v India at The Oval, 18–22 August 2011". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Ian Bell – Centuries at home venues". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Ian Bell – Centuries at venues outside England". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ Wilson, Andy (11 August 2013). "Ian Bell's 'enjoyable' third century equals David Gower's Ashes record". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "Records / Test matches / Batting records / Dismissed for 99 (and 199, 299 etc)". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Records – Test matches – Most hundreds in a career for England". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ^ "England tour of Zimbabwe, 1st ODI: Zimbabwe v England at Harare, 28 November 2004". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "India tour of Ireland, England and Scotland, 1st ODI: England v India at Southampton, 21 August 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Carlton Mid One-Day International Tri-Series, 4th Match: Australia v England at Hobart, 23 January 2015". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ Lucas, Dan (28 August 2015). "Ian Bell retires from one-day international cricket". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Statistics – Statsguru – Ian Bell – Twenty20 Internationals". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "Records – Combined Test, ODI and T20I records – Batting records – Most hundreds in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2015.