Just like a year ago, promotions and discounts remain crucial given the high unemployment rate and tight household budgets.
And although Stuart Carlisle and Guy Whittall, lower down the order, scored in the 30's, a slow run rate and tight Pakistan bowling denied them a better score.
Labour markets are tight: the unemployment rate fell to 6.4% in the three months to February, and manufacturers and service companies continue to report shortages of skilled labour.
If real asset prices are falling, policy is tight regardless of the interest rate.
The export coal demand is expected to grow, although at a slower rate, given the tight truckload capacity, growth in international coal prices and improving global demand, particularly from Asian economies.
Such signs of resistance to economic liberalisation, compounded recently by concerns over tight liquidity and a rigid exchange rate, have dampened both retail and stock markets, as well as the foreign investment that Egypt badly needs.
In the early 1980s, a high exchange rate, the product of tight fiscal policy and tight money, was the agent of recession and unemployment.
Yet that zero interest rate policy was evidence of an extremely tight monetary policy.
The blame for the euro area's feeble growth rate lies mainly with an over-tight fiscal policy and structural rigidities.
The game appeared delicately poised but helped by some tight bowling from Harmison, the required run-rate edged towards double figures.
Even if job losses in construction and manufacturing begin to push up the unemployment rate, the labour market will still be tight.
Second, the bank appears to be sending a strong signal to the rest of the government about the importance of maintaining tight fiscal policy as a precondition for a lower neutral rate.
Consequently the shadow interest rate is high and monetary policy is effectively very tight.
Nor is it right to blame tight money for the euro-11's average jobless rate of 11.1%, compared with 4.6% in America.
One piece of good news this week is that following interest-rate cuts and the government's scrapping of tight restrictions on bank lending, total bank loans jumped by 19% in the 12 months to December, up from growth of 14% last summer.
On the face of it, another fall in unemployment, and a jobless rate of 6.2%, is a sign that labour markets are still tight, and hence a risk to inflation.
Neither could interest rate cuts coax banks, which are currently re-evaluating risk and keeping a tight grasp on their balance sheet, to be more generous in their lending to house buyers.
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