Pietersen switched the ball inside to du Preez, who was tap tackled by Jason Robinson but able to slip the ball to Smith who romped over.
The striker, on in place of Forrest, spread play wide to Samaras before racing forward to receive the Greek's return pass and slip the ball past Costil.
Instead, he chose to run it across his own penalty area and lost control with a heavy touch, allowing Ireland to slip the ball into an empty net.
Even goalkeeper Tim Howard hesitated on his line for just long enough on the deciding goal to allow Oscar Boniek Garcia to slip the ball under him onto Bengtson's sprinting feet.
Charlie Hodgson came on to replace Peel and this produced instant dividends as he set up Rory Lamont to charge straight at the Clermont line, spin through a challenge and slip the ball to McAlister to go over in the corner.
Arsenal grabbed a controversial equalizer in the 52nd minute when Cesc Fabregas latched on to Andrey Arshavin's pass to slip the ball through Jaaskelainen's legs but there had appeared to be an earlier foul when William Gallas appeared to catch Mark Davies on the ankle.
It got worse for the Dons four minutes into the second half, when Langfield smothered McDonald's attempt at a cross but let the ball slip from his grasp for the Australian striker to fire into the empty net.
But the Quins winger let the ball slip out from underneath him, presenting Simpson with the easiest of scores.
His effort should have been gathered easily by Keller, but somehow he let the ball slip from his grasp and could only look on in despair as it trickled into the back of the net.
The seamer found the ideal line and length outside off stump, rooting Cook to his crease as his bat fended the ball to second slip and bringing the under-fire Collingwood to the crease.
The 21-year-old, whose father, Andy, is defense coach for the Lions, saw the ball slip out of his hands as he went to pass.
He decided to leap in front of Strauss, who had the catch covered at first slip, but could only deflect the ball to the third man boundary.
Newman looked to dominate an attack led by England's Chris Tremlett, who saw the left-hander continually steer the ball through or over the slip cordon and down to the boundary.
Dawson slipped attempting to clear a routine free-kick and the ball fell invitingly for Piquionne to slip the simplest of finishes under Gomes.
But City's one-man advantage told in the end as Ireland latched onto Robinho's through-ball to slip it past the on-rushing Given, leaving Newcastle second from bottom.
And the Portuguese winger duly stepped up and struck a blistering free-kick that dipped and swerved in front of Thomas Sorensen, who allowed the ball to slip through his grasp.
More catches went down in the early stages of England's reply, Prior dropped by Tendulkar in the third over as the ball swerved in the air to him at slip.
The midfielder then rolled the ball to Welshman Davies who unleashed a fierce effort which, while powerful, was straight at Carson, only for him to allow the ball to inexplicably slip through his hands.
It took until 42 minutes for the deadlock to be broken, when Malawian goalkeeper Navigator Dzinkambani let a bouncing ball slip out of his fans and onto the head of Mayo.
Evans struck with his fourth ball of the day to have home captain Alex Gidman also held by Hall at slip and later had Chris Taylor caught by Stephen Peters at extra cover the ball after being hooked for six.
The last man epitomised the general New Zealand frailty against an accurate swinging ball, edging to second slip to put England in good heart for the very different proposition that is Friday's Twenty20 extravaganza.
Broad opts to go around the wicket, with a leg slip in place, and gets a ball to rise around Ramdin's kidneys, which only just evades the outstretched diving right hand of the bionic James Anderson close to the stumps.
New Zealand's second innings got off to a shaky start with Tim McIntosh caught by Tendulkar at slip for a third-ball duck and the home side limped to 75-3.
Notts lost Neil Edwards to the sixth ball of the innings, his defensive edge going straight to Trescothick at slip, but Wagh and Shafayat batted with increasing confidence as Notts reached tea without losing any further wickets.
First he had Chapple caught at second slip by Ollie Rayner after Mike Yardy had parried the ball from first, before trapping Sajid Mahmood leg before with the very next ball.
He hit a beautiful cover-drive for four off Stuart Clark but then, attempting to hit an innocuous delivery through midwicket, turned his wrists too soon and the ball caught the back of his bat before being taken comfortably by Matthew Hayden at slip.
An error of judgment cost him his wicket to the final ball before lunch as he pushed at a wide one from Batty and slip fielder Marcus Trescothick accepted the chance at the second attempt.
Earlier, Mike Smith trapped opener Ali Brown lbw with the fourth ball of the day and then saw Mark Ramprakash nick one to Spearman at first slip for 11.
It also offers plenty of opportunities to bone up on your knowledge of wickets (the three upright sticks the bowler has to hit with the ball to dismiss the batsman), googlies (unpredictably spinning balls), slip-fielding positions (fielders positioned close to the batsman) and ducks (batsmen that get out without scoring).
Gareth Berg was caught at slip two balls later, pushing forward, and the last ball of Shakib's sixth over saw Tim Murtagh slice a wildly optimistic drive to point, to leave Middlesex 54-7.
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