Mark Hughes fucked up tatically in the 2nd half. The moving of Bellamy up front with Tevez and Ireland out to the left cost them massively. They were the better team up until that point. After the move was made it was all one way traffic.
The pitch isn't great - but there weren't many of our dismissals you could blame on the surface - just poor batting on our part, and some good bowling from England. Throw in a couple of howlers from the umpires as well too naturally.
Prior looks like he's going to be out for the Poms too ... various reasons being given from he's done a knee playing football in the warm up, he's done a shoulder in the warm up or he's suffered a back spasm. England have asked for an extra 10 minutes delay the toss from the match umpires to...