Feeble Finn takes the 非難する as England are beaten again with Bell's century in vain

By MIKE DICKSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL

Published: 15:03 BST, 8 January 2013 | Updated: 21:06 BST, 8 January 2013

India are a humbled and friendless 味方する at the moment, under 圧力 after losing 実験（する）s before Christmas and, worse for their support, the one-day series just gone against Pakistan.

Yet they will not be shaking in their pyjamas at what the next few weeks have in 蓄える／店, not after the recently returned tourists failed to defend a perfectly decent, Ian Bell-力／強力にするd total against a scratch team from the 資本／首都.

Nine balls were left in the chilly expanses of the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium when a Delhi outfit of 比較して threadbare experience 精密検査するd 294 with six wickets to spare, the 欠如（する） of の近くにing 演劇 faintly embarrassing.

Century boy: Bell 得点する／非難する／２０d a トン, but it wasn't enough to save England

The party was 長，率いるing south to the warmer climes of Rajkot 重さを計るd 負かす／撃墜する by the 超過 baggage of two 敗北・負かすs in three days ahead of Friday’s first international of the five 存在 played this month.

There is no need to panic, and not just because the 選択 of this squad has already told of bigger 優先s in the coming year. The batsmen, led by a very 遂行するd century from Bell, did their 職業 in the watery afternoon sun and made light of the absence of the 残り／休憩（する）d Kevin Pietersen to 地位，任命する a respectable if not 支配するing 得点する／非難する／２０.

The 関心 will be about an attack shorn of Jimmy Anderson, Graeme Swann and Stuart 幅の広い which 欠如（する）d leadership and discipline and was unable to stop Milind Kumar, a 21-year-old with only 13 上級の games behind him, from 安全な・保証するing victory with an unbeaten 78.

Steven Finn is 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with trying to fill the 無効の but had a 特に fruitless day and, having tried too many short balls under the new two-bouncers-per-over 支配する on Sunday, seemed to overcompensate by going too 十分な this time.

An exception was Kent spinner James Tredwell, reliable and underrated.

He 否定するd that dew in the 早期に evening floodlit 条件s had been a factor and 認める: ‘It’s our 技術s that have let us 負かす／撃墜する today, we didn’t 攻撃する，衝突する our lengths 終始一貫して enough and 明確に we need to make some 改良s. We need to put this 失望 behind us.’

Realistically, new 長，率いる coach Ashley Giles and his 抱擁する array of assistants do not have many 選択s, although Tim Bresnan can be 解任するd. What they do know is th at the 幸福感 of the 実験（する） series has dissipated and it is 支援する to the difficult 商売／仕事 of winning 限られた／立憲的な-overs matches in India, something that has eluded them in 最近の years.

Rough start: New 限られた／立憲的な-overs 長，率いる coach Giles is yet to savour victory

Bell looks in glorious nick, 前進するing 負かす／撃墜する the wicket to reel off a 一連の cover 運動s en 大勝する to 108, again finding the accelerator after playing a more 用心深い 役割 at the 最高の，を越す of the innings, as in his 91 on Sunday.

Alastair Cook, having 回復するd from a 激しい 冷淡な, was also fluent until he was bowled by Sumit Narwal for 44. Eoin Morgan 押し進めるd on and Craig Kieswetter 供給するd a late 殺到する with 41 from 27 balls, finishing it off with 連続した sixes hoiked over 中央の-wicket.

Even on a decent wicket it really should have been enough to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 an XI that had only three players with any international caps and was inferior to the India A 味方する who 証明するd too strong at the 週末.

But England’s seam attack haemorrhaged more than six runs an over between them, and there was no 早期に 打開 against an 開始 pair of India’s vaunted? Under 19 captain Unmukt Chand and Shikhar Dhawan, who has five one-day caps.

Dhawan’s 侵略 was rewarded and he was only undone after a belligerent 110 when 落ちるing lbw to the 時折の spin of Joe Root, whose introduction looked like? a masterstroke from Cook.

After two quick wickets and at 192-4, England had the 率先 but there was nobody to 圧力（をかける） home the advantage and Kumar steered his 味方する home from needing 75 in the last 10. Chris Woakes and Stuart Meaker did not 前進する their 原因（となる）s, nor did Samit Patel in his 役割 as 支援する-up spinner.

At least Friday will be a new 発生地 with new 天候 that does not make April in Durham feel like Colombo.

There has not been a better time to 直面する India in a long while, but so far there is a painful 欠如（する） of? 証拠 that England will repeat what they did only weeks ago.