In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battlefor Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.
After thelight was taken for a second time, Vettori continued to battle valiantly, swatting James Anderson for a hat-trick of boundaries through point in the 84th over.