Pietersen survived the hat-trick ball but edged just beyond Di Venuto off Neil Killeen before inevitably falling to that man Gibson, who pinned him in front of off-stump with one he angled in.
By adding Van Zandt as a second guitar player, he was liberated from some of his musical duties, and he became a full-throttle front man, leaping off amps and pianos, frog-hopping from one tabletop to the next.
Ramdin had hit one boundary before playing back to Muralitharan and being hit in front of off-stump - the fifth man in the innings to fall foul of the lbw rule.
According to Saturday's Washington Post, in one of these meetings, he was among the front-row attendees at a briefing conducted by the man who is, arguably, Mr. Bush's chief aide: Karl Rove.