Judgment day for the Shermanator
Ian Bell has replaced the injured Kevin Pietersen for the third Ashes Test in Edgbaston and that will give Australia the edge, according to Shane Warne in the Times .
Bell’s return will hopefully be greeted with “welcome back, Shermanator”, the nickname I gave him in 2006. I remember watching American Pie in the team hotel with Michael Clarke on the fourth evening of the Adelaide Test and when the dorky ginger kid appeared we both started laughing because it reminded us of Bell.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo