Further failures to do simple things occurred on Sunday, when Jimmy Anderson decided to exact his revenge on Ravi Jadeja by bowling half-way down the track. Jadeja added 99 from 100 balls with Bhuvneshwar Kumar to decisively win the battle. Finally, today saw what must rank as one of the most woeful collective brain-freezes in Test history: the dismissals of Prior, Stokes and Root to go from a winning position to a losing one.
There are few players who don't have question marks hanging over their heads now, and they're all the young, new recruits.