Johnson was twice on a hat-trick, and finished with figures of seven for 40 as England collapsed from 111 for three to 135 for nine, and eventually 172 all out. Bell alone withstood Johnson&rsquo;s 90mph spells, with an unbeaten 72. <img alt="Ian Bell" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/dec/Ian-Bell.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 599px;" /> Ian Bell en route his unbeaten 72 on Saturday. Pic/AFP Bell has yet to succumb to him on this tour, but warns it is no use one or two frontline batsmen passing 50 if there is no support. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t afford in Test matches, certainly in your first innings, to get bowled out under 200 &mdash; you&rsquo;re not going to win anything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The guys in that dressing room have played a lot of cricket, and there&rsquo;s no excuses.&rdquo; It may be hard to envisage England somehow batting for almost two days &mdash; depending when Australia&rsquo;s declaration comes &mdash; to salvage a stalemate. But Bell, for one, is not about to give up yet. &ldquo;There&rsquo;ll be some guys hurting at the minute,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have an opportunity in the second innings to at least try to show people we&rsquo;re going to show some fight. We need to fix it pretty quickly if we want to get back in the series. Someone&rsquo;s got to play an incredible innings &mdash; if you want to bat a day, this is the day to do it,&rdquo; he added.

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Straight-talking Ian Bell insists there can be "no excuses" for England after they were blown away yet again by Mitchell Johnson in the second Test at Adelaide. 

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