That's Out!

The complacent decision by Ian Bell to return to the pavilion at the tea interval and subsequent "run out" at the Second Test, is, as time will tell, a likely storm in a teacup, but it does draw attention to how players continue to ride on oblivious to umpiring, an attitude actively encouraged with the Decision Review System, that allows them to dissent further from the figure of authority in the field.

It was also, as much as a sporting gesture by the Indians to "the spirit of the game" (for whom it did otherwise very little good), a way of taming the angry and mostly drunken Trent Bridge crowd, who only minutes before were gleefully Mexican waving, and equally oblivious to the on-field action as Ian Bell was at teatime.

Ian Bell misguidedly heads to the pavilion for his teatime cuppa - before the umpire has told him to, meanwhile the Indians have whipped the bails off.