Pugnacious Prior fails by flickering

England are deprived of four regulars and they have not disgraced themselves. So they do not deserve many brickbats for their efforts so far, but it is debatable whether they are making the most of their resources. Vic Marks asks in The Observer whether Matt Prior is the best one-day opener in England in Marcus Trescothick's absence?

In an era when 260 is looked upon as being nothing more than a par score, the bowling figures of James Anderson and Kabir Ali do not appear too disastrous, writes Angus Fraser in The Independent. He goes on to say that England might well make two changes to the team that lost the first two one-day internationals.