How edged a Ryan Sidebottom delivery short of the slip cordon, while Bell survived a strong lbw shout against Broad, but four consecutive boundaries off the misfiring James Anderson got the latter going nicely.
Strauss, full of confidence after his century in the victory at Old Trafford, took his team calmly to 84-2 at lunch, but in the first over after the interval edged a very wide delivery high to first slip.
Heroic pronouncements like the one above, which would seem to raise the specter of failure and impel employees forward, perversely do just the opposite: they incent employees to lobby to lower the bar and slip the delivery date.