[1] He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on 22 and 4 occasions respectively.
[9] His dismissal for 199 against South Africa in July 2008 made him just the seventh batsman to lose his wicket on that score in Test cricket.
[11] Bell's ODI debut came in 2004 against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, a match England won by five wickets.
[1] As of 2015, Bell is joint forty-sixth—with Garfield Sobers, Marcus Trescothick and David Boon—in the list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined.
^ Bell is joint twenty-eighth in all-time Test century makers along with Wally Hammond, Mohammad Azharuddin, Colin Cowdrey and Geoffrey Boycott.