Inevitably, Bopara sold Cook horribly short when pushing to cover and setting off for a madrun - Cook was run out by yards - and Graeme Swann lasted just six balls.
The handful of folks who were able to summon up the courage to enter the water were huddled into small groups a few feet offshore and periodically groups of teenage girls would shriek and run from the surf, inciting a mad scramble for the shore by the remaining bathers.