Ian Bell: Touring India is our big test but we won’t fear it

Evening Standard

Subcontinent has long been England’s undoing but the batsman is hopeful team will show their mettle, regardless of whether KP is ‘reintegrated’ or not


In the next few weeks Ian Bell will meet Kevin Pietersen. In normal circumstances, with Bell expecting his first child and Pietersen telling the world he wants his five-year-old to play for England, this would have been a chat between the two England stars on the joys of fatherhood.

But this will be no ordinary meeting and one of many Pietersen, returning to England in between playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Champions League in South Africa, will have with his national team-mates.