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IR Bell
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
Ian Bell is a batter who represented England Cricket across all three formats, making 274 appearances in an England shirt and further outings for Warwickshire, Birmingham Bears, Perth Scorchers and Islamabad United. Across 313 career matches he scored 14,257 runs at an average of 40.85 and a strike rate of 61.96. His primary competition by match volume is the One-Day International, where he played 152 times and scored 5,289 runs. His most recent recorded appearances came in the T20 Blast in the 2020 season, where scores were modest, though his wider Blast record over 47 matches shows a strike rate of 131.75.
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IRBELL
Bat Avg
40.9
Bowl Avg
22.1
2026 Season Context
Recent form
Bell's last 10 recorded appearances are spread across the T20 Blast (2018 and 2020) and the PSL (2019), with scores of 65, 54, 43, 34 and 54 featuring among the ten innings alongside some low single-d
Strongest format
One-Day International — With 152 ODI appearances and 5,289 runs at an average of 39.47 and a strike rate of 77.04, the ODI format represents the largest and most sustained po
Career stats overview
114 Test · 152 ODI · 47 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
114 matches
7,416
Runs scored
1
Wickets taken
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
152 matches
5,289
Runs scored
6
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
47 matches
1,552
Runs scored
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Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
215
wickets
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
112
wickets
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
38.4
batting avg
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
198
wkts in 48 M
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
14
five-wicket hauls
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
2
finals played
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
14,257 runs across three formats
Bell accumulated 14,257 runs from 313 matches at a batting average of 40.85. That output spans Test cricket, ODIs and the T20 Blast, making him one of England's most prolific batters across formats over his career.
Best numbers come against India and Bangladesh
Bell averaged 45.93 against India across 50 matches and an exceptional 102.86 against Bangladesh in 9 appearances. Those figures place him among the more reliable England batters against Asian opposition across the data set.
Old Trafford and Trent Bridge his most productive grounds
At Old Trafford, Bell averaged 55.17 from 14 matches. At Trent Bridge, his average sits at 50.47 from 18 matches. Both grounds consistently brought out his best across the span of his career.
T20 Blast strike rate of 131.75 shows late-career adaptability
Across 47 Blast appearances, Bell scored 1,552 runs at a strike rate of 131.75. That figure is markedly above his ODI strike rate of 77.04, reflecting a genuine ability to shift gears in the shortest format.
Test average of 42.87 edges his ODI return
Bell's 7,416 Test runs came at 42.87 from 114 matches, fractionally above his ODI average of 39.47. He contributed more total runs in Tests despite playing fewer matches in that format than in ODIs.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams IR Bell has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Australia
- Matches
- 64
- Runs
- 3,095
India
- Matches
- 50
- Runs
- 2,480
New Zealand
- Matches
- 39
- Runs
- 1,291
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 35
- Runs
- 1,466
- Wickets
- 1
South Africa
- Matches
- 26
- Runs
- 1,177
Pakistan
- Matches
- 21
- Runs
- 1,134
- Wickets
- 1
West Indies
- Matches
- 19
- Runs
- 1,047
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 720
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where IR Bell has turned out most often.
Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Matches
- 38
- Runs
- 1,416
Lord's, London
- Matches
- 30
- Runs
- 1,612
The Oval, London
- Matches
- 24
- Runs
- 1,203
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 858
Headingley, Leeds
- Matches
- 15
- Runs
- 519
Old Trafford, Manchester
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 662
- Wickets
- 1
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 430
County Ground
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 451
Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.