Third Ashes Test, Edgbaston: England v Australia
Dates: Thursday 30 July to Monday 3 August Start time: 1100 BST
Coverage: Listen to Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 Longwave, 5 Live sports extra, the Red Button and BBC Sport website. Text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobile phones. Also live on Sky Sports.
 Bell featured all five Tests during the 2005 and 2006/2007 Ashes series
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Ian Bell will bat at number four for England in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston, says skipper Andrew Strauss.
The decision means England can avoid re-jigging a batting order hit by the series-ending Achilles operation to regular number four Kevin Pietersen.
Bell, 27, has not played for England since the innings and 23 runs defeat by West Indies in Jamaica in February.
"When you have played a considerable amount for your country, when you are not there it really hurts," he said.
"You miss what you used to do a hell of a lot. You do everything you can to get back into that team. When I got back from the West Indies after the winter tour, I really had to put the Ashes to the back of my mind.
"I had to get the runs in county cricket with Warwickshire to give myself a chance to be part of the Ashes and overall I've done that."
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I had to make sure I was in the best possible form if I got an opportunity
Ian Bell
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Bell's form suffered during England's tour to India at the end of 2008 and the selectors eventually lost patience when his second-innings dismissal in Sabina Park sparked a collapse that resulted in the tourists being dismissed for 51.
Ravi Bopara was subsequently elevated from the fringes and the Essex batsmen cemented his place by becoming only the fifth English batsman to score three successive Test centuries.
This season Bell has scored 640 in 11 innings for Warwickshire in Division One of the County Championship, although he was dismissed for 7 and 0 in his last match, against Hampshire. He averages 25 in 10 Tests against Australia.
"It was important for me to keep in good form in case there was an injury or someone was showing a lack of form," added Bell, who has scored 3,004 runs in 46 Tests in all for England.
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"I had to make sure I was in the best possible form if I got an opportunity. The message that has come out from England is there is a lot of cricket this summer.
"With the amount of international cricket there is now, it is not just 11 players who are going to win games of cricket for England over a year.
"It is a squad effort. England need a strong squad of players and that is what is starting to happen."
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