Ian Bell helps Warwickshire pull in front on long day for Lancashire

Lancashire 247, Warwickshire 316-9

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Ian Bell gave Jimmy Anderson a taste of the pain he inflicted so gracefully on Australia's bowlers last summer before Lancashire's lower-profile seamers led a fightback in the evening session of an absorbing day.

On a pleasant Easter Monday afternoon in Manchester far more pleasant than the previous day, raising further questions about Lancashire's decision to bat first it was as though the return Ashes series had never happened, especially when Bell late-cut Anderson through third man for one of the nine boundaries that adorned an otherwise attritional innings.

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