Following a superb final-ball victory in their first match against Deccan Chargers on Saturday, it was a crushing defeat for Somerset, and the effect on their net run-rate could have lasting consequences for their campaign.
Essex lost Mark Pettini to the first ball of their reply, Alastair Cook soon followed - and they never recovered.
Three other bowlers took wickets with the first ball of their only Test.
Despite those misgivings, few will have given Ireland a chance of chasing down 328 to win and even fewer will have been backing them after they lost a wicket from the very first ball of their reply.
When Bell and Prior brought up their 100 partnership from the first ball of the 16th over, England were cruising, but they got an unwelcome jolt from the gentler pace offered by Kallis's swing bowling and Johan Botha's off-spinners.
The tourists had to wait until the final ball before lunch before achieving their first success of the day.
Iceland took the lead with their first attack - a long ball sailed over the visitor's defence and Bjornsson provided the cool finish from Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson's intelligent cut-back.
Fiji have been the surprise package of the competition but got off to the worst possible start against the Kangaroos, losing the ball on the second tackle of their first set of six with just 21 seconds gone.
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England reached their first 50 from 47 balls and by ball 86 were up to 100, in contrast Ireland took 54 balls to reach 50 and a further 62 to reach 100.
Following their first corner in the sixth minute the ball broke to the edge of the box to Kilmarnock midfielder Mark Reilly, who steadied himself but blasted the ball harmlessly over the bar.
Their first try came on 10 minutes, the ball was spread wide and Matt Cooper fed Morris who barged his way over in the corner.
The visitors did look more threatening as soon as the second period began and Steve Livingstone had their first strike at goal but but sent the ball wide.
Bath had been pushing for their first try of the afternoon only for the ball to be hoofed clear and David Bory to send Mignoni on his way.
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"We hoped we could give him a rest this week but we needed a bit more experience there and his first touch of the ball opened up their defence, " he said.
From a tapped penalty the Scarlets got the ball out to Mark Jones, to create their first legitimate scoring chance, but he was bundled into touch five metres from the line.
The men in tangerine gamely battled for every first and second ball in midfield and were rewarded for their pressing 10 minutes after Liverpool's opener.
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For me the difference this week has to be if England kick, the chase has to be better, they have to make their first-up tackles and they can't play with static ball.
Warrington increased their lead midway through the first half when, on the sixth tackle, they kept the ball alive and a long pass from Lee Briers allowed Bridge to glide through.
One of their better openings in the first half came when a deep-lying Geovanni floated a bouncing ball over the top for Martin Petrov to accelerate onto, only for on-rushing Wigan keeper Kirkland to clear decisively.
Bangalore looked on track to successfully defend their total when the South African side's star batsman Herschelle Gibbs fell for a first-ball duck in Praveen Kumar's first over.
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Bothroyd reduced the deficit on 32 minutes with their first real chance when he beat the offside trap to superbly chest down Chris Burke's ball over the top and coolly fire past Dorus de Vries in bottom left-hand corner.
Cerny then saved a fine dead-ball strike from Buddies centre-forward Billy Mehmet, partnering Michael Higdon up front as they sought their first three points in the SPL since a 1-0 win over Aberdeen in January.
BBC: Alex Neil (r) and Steven Thomson in action at St Mirren Park
Blackpool had to change their keeper at the interval with Ghanaian Richard Kingson replacing Matt Gilks and his first job was almost picking the ball out of the net as Portuguese midfielder Boa Morte latched on to a cute through-ball by Parker but shot narrowly wide of the right-hand post.
They could hardly have had longer to keep Tottenham at bay after taking the lead with their first attack of the afternoon when the impressive Milijas curled in a free-kick and Doyle glanced the ball in.
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