Is Ricky Ponting overlooking Ian Bell at his peril?

In a player-by-player analysis of England's squad for a local newspaper, Ponting has completely overlooked Ian Bell. He sees the misfiring Pietersen as the main threat.

Given that Bell has been, arguably, England's best batsman over the past twelve months, has he made a catastrophic mistake?
 
We Australians have never rated Ian bell, why should we? Until he actually steps up in test matches he will always be regarded as a joke here in Australia. If your pinning your hopes on him I am laughing so very hard right now.
 
Overlooking any player is gross foolishness. Threat or not, any player when spirited can stand in the path of your victory. Ian Bell has a good career record of 11 centuries (and 23 half centuries) in 100 innings with a highest score of 199. I would call that pretty good. Given that Bell is scoring consistently, yes it would be a blunder in ignoring a technically sound batsman. But then Dicky is a master at committing mistakes. I do remember Tim Paine scoring a test century in the 1st inning against India this October. Nobody expected him to score a century and I think that too hindered the march of India to a comfortable position to a certain extent. So, it can be catastrophic.
 
Overlooking any player is gross foolishness. Threat or not, any player when spirited can stand in the path of your victory. Ian Bell has a good career record of 11 centuries (and 23 half centuries) in 100 innings with a highest score of 199. I would call that pretty good. Given that Bell is scoring consistently, yes it would be a blunder in ignoring a technically sound batsman. But then Dicky is a master at committing mistakes. I do remember Tim Paine scoring a test century in the 1st inning against India this October. Nobody expected him to score a century and I think that too hindered the march of India to a comfortable position to a certain extent. So, it can be catastrophic.
 
Overlooking any player is gross foolishness. Threat or not, any player when spirited can stand in the path of your victory. Ian Bell has a good career record of 11 centuries (and 23 half centuries) in 100 innings with a highest score of 199. I would call that pretty good. Given that Bell is scoring consistently, yes it would be a blunder in ignoring a technically sound batsman. But then Dicky is a master at committing mistakes. I do remember Tim Paine scoring a test century in the 1st inning against India this October. Nobody expected him to score a century and I think that too hindered the march of India to a comfortable position to a certain extent. So, it can be catastrophic.
 
Overlooking any player is gross foolishness. Threat or not, any player when spirited can stand in the path of your victory. Ian Bell has a good career record of 11 centuries (and 23 half centuries) in 100 innings with a highest score of 199. I would call that pretty good. Given that Bell is scoring consistently, yes it would be a blunder in ignoring a technically sound batsman. But then Dicky is a master at committing mistakes. I do remember Tim Paine scoring a test century in the 1st inning against India this October. Nobody expected him to score a century and I think that too hindered the march of India to a comfortable position to a certain extent. So, it can be catastrophic.
 
Overlooking any player is gross foolishness. Threat or not, any player when spirited can stand in the path of your victory. Ian Bell has a good career record of 11 centuries (and 23 half centuries) in 100 innings with a highest score of 199. I would call that pretty good. Given that Bell is scoring consistently, yes it would be a blunder in ignoring a technically sound batsman. But then Dicky is a master at committing mistakes. I do remember Tim Paine scoring a test century in the 1st inning against India this October. Nobody expected him to score a century and I think that too hindered the march of India to a comfortable position to a certain extent. So, it can be catastrophic.
 
Ian Bell is extremely inconsistent. Two matches 2 tons, next 5 matches 20 runs/match. He needs to be more consistent. Ponting has not overlooked Ian Bell; he can't do too much harm anyways, unless he is conistently succesful, like Sachin Tendulkar/Kallis/Jayawardane. Whatever. You get my point.
 
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