Ashes 2015: With an audacious flourish, home hero Ian Bell ends all debate

Be a hero, Ian Bell. The urging of the audience was palpable, the whole of Edgbaston on tiptoe urging their boy forward as he walked to the crease with just 11 on the board and the skipper in the unsaddling enclosure. Only 110 needed for victory, sun out and a third-day pitch offering the kind of dreamscape that filled many a schoolboy imagining.