He was also involved in an unusual incident during Bangladesh's innings when he dropped a soft catch offered by Shahriar Nafees, but his throw to the keeper ran out opposite number Habibul Bashar who had dallied mid-pitch in annoyance at his partner's poor stroke.
Tony Blair's annoyance was plain last week when Bell challenged him in the Commons to allow more freedom tohis backbenchers "so that this place might become rather more the free Parliament of a free people, and rather less a rubber-stamp assembly".