However the Beeb's live thingey said this about the pitch this morning;
1116: Eng 8-0
First glimpse of Fred on the England balcony as Macca Ntini zips in to Cookie. The old stager drops short and is cut away by the doe-eyed opener for an uppish four to the fence. Decent amount of bounce in the track so far - looks like a tough 'un to bat on.
It is certainly not a 200 pitch, maybe 300. Vaughan, KP, Bell, Flintoff and Broad all paid poor shots, as if they were playing on Lords still. Just needed to dig in a bit I reckon.
Vaughan almost caught amlar, convinced he did, amlar convinced he did, we appealed, Bowden gave out. amlar walked off to the dressing room, got to tthe boundary.
Graham Smith sent him back out to the middle saying he was not out, Hamlar walked back, spoke to Bowden, Bowden referred it, given not out