Well, what on earth happened there? Waking up this morning on day two of this World Cup to find their nightmarish, nine-wicket mauling by New Zealand was no dream, that is the question England must have been asking, longing for the video-gamer's temptation: pause, quit, restart.
With fewer people occupying 130,000 seats in Ahmedabad than there can be watching TalkTV at any one time, it was a match that began looking more like another of the World Cup's muck-about warm-ups than its much-hyped opener – and how England looked as if they could have used another of those.
