Top 10 English middle order batsmen of all time

#5 Ian Bell

The right-handed batsman who served as one of the pillars of the English middle-order during the team's ascent to becoming one of the world's best Test sides initially batted at number 3 but then went on to bat in the middle-order.

Ian Bell played 118 Tests for England from 2004 to 2015 and in 94 of those games, he batted in the middle-order.

Bell had an excellent defence but he was primarily an attacking batsman and he was arguably one of the best players of the cover drive in world cricket for much of his career.

He is the third highest run scorer among English middle-order batsmen and piled up 5497 runs at an average of 45.05. Bell scored 20 centuries and 33 half-centuries as a middle-order batsman.