Ian Bell expects Peter Moores to be a better England cricket coach second time around but believes there is no substitute for player responsibility.
Bell is one of a handful of senior England players Moores inherited after Andy Flower stood down following the team's 5-0 Ashes drubbing in Australia.
Moores was England's coach during a two-year spell from 2007 to 2009.
However, he was forced out after a rift with Kevin Pietersen that cost the latter the England captaincy, although English cricket chiefs ended the star batsman's international career after the recent Ashes debacle.
Bell helped Moores, who restored his reputation at Lancashire, get his second stint as England coach off to a winning start by making a fluent 50 during a 39-run victory away to Scotland in a rain-marred one-day international in Aberdeen on Friday.
"He's a very good coach with lots of qualities, and I'm sure he's learnt from mistakes he's made -- I know he's said that," Bell said.
"I think he's got that experience of probably understanding international cricket a bit more. I'm sure he's learnt a lot in the five years he's been with Lancashire."
"Maybe he will go away a bit from looking at stats all the time and give a bit more responsibility to us. It's important for us to make decisions."
At the age of 32 and with 98 Tests and 141 one-day internationals behind him, Warwickshire right-hander Bell certainly has the experience to do just that during coming home series with Sri Lanka and India.
"Looking back, you can't blame the coaches for what happened in the winter," Bell said of an England tour program that culminated in the embarrassment of a World Twenty20 loss to the Netherlands in Bangladesh.
"The players have to stand up and score runs and take wickets, no matter who's coaching."
But having seen England bounce back from the despair of a 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia in 2006/07, Bell sees no reason why the current side cannot rise again.
"Having been involved in 06/07, I think it is possible to turn things round, and I believe we can do it again.
"Yes, it will take a little bit of time. But in English conditions, I'd back us to beat anyone in the world."
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