Ashes 2013: Ian Bell looking to carry on good form and end Australia hopes at Old Trafford I don't really feel too bad about the previous series but it is nice to be able to do things when the team need it most and scoring hundreds is what you want to do. To have three now against Australia is exactly where I want to be. Bell has always found Old Trafford to be a happy hunting ground. He has scored two hundreds and a 97 in five Manchester Tests, at an average of 87. England's record there is positive too, winning six of their nine Old Trafford Tests since the turn of the century. But if there is anything Bell takes from the titanic drawn Test in 2005 - the last Ashes match played at Old Trafford - it is that Australia will be battling for their lives. "I know that the Test matches I've been involved in there, we've got a good record so it is a good place for England to go to now," Bell said. The 2005 Test was a game we were looking at (targetting) another win, but Australia battled right to the end. Bell's bid for a Lord's hundred could have ended on just three when he fended a rising delivery from Ryan Harris to Steve Smith in the gully, only for the third umpire to rule the ball had not carried. David Gower, commentating on television, described it as an appalling decision and it reignited the debate about whether a batsman should walk. Bell revealed he was told to stand his ground by the umpires. At the time it didn't look quite right. I looked around and as the umpires got together they told me to hold fire at the crease," Bell said. As soon as they say wait there because they're going upstairs it is out of your hands.