Campanology
Warwickshire 239 for 4 (65 overs). Bell 108, Ambrose 7.
Bell's century, almost faultless, arrived from 185 balls with 15 fours. It is the 24th first-class century of his career, his first against Somerset and, we believe, his first in the vicinity of a shaven-headed middle-aged man in a motorised wheelchair listening to the Boomtown Rats with a large green cloth frog hanging down.
The last two occasions Bell has reached 100 for the Bears he has gone on to 200.
Batting is still not easy. Moderate light and heavy cloud cover. Warwickshire might fancy a bowl in these conditions. 400 could be a decent score.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Have you got an American spellcheck Brian? Your Post report has the word practise in there. What next ize instead of ise? Sidewalk instead of pavement? Coffee instead of tea? Dempsey rather than Makepeace?
I hope you're humming Land Of Hope & Glory to compensate!
I'm convinced Belly will get stacks of runs early season, at which point he'll be dragged off to play for England and be roundly abused by most commentators and several ex-England captains, some of whom frankly just don't measure up to him either as a person or a player. Perhaps he should take the frog with him, lucky omen and all that..
Regarding cost and value (actually price and value), I've looked it up on t'internet. It was Oscar Wilde who, disappointingly, said it about Englishmen, which I guess means me!
Bozza...you have hit the nail on the head there!
So frustrating for him and the likes of us who have to listen to the drivel those commentators come out with.
We're caught in the middle..while it's great he's getting the runs, we lose him to England.
Oh well, let's just enjoy him while we can.
Apologies, Mr Dant. But don't forget we have a great deal for which to be grateful to the Americans.
The Waltons, for example.