Poor shots from England costing too many wickets, compounded by so many so quickly. Once Compton had gone early the worst thing Cook could do was toss his wicket away. That opened the door for a second quick wicket and you're always going to struggle at 18/3 unless the pitch is a road or something.
Bell then helped Trott in a recovery mission before tossing his wicket away, I could go on but unfortunately England batsmen didn't. With only Trott batting for more than 64 minutes there was no real prospect of a decent total, at least 250 would have been something, but not enough batsmen placed value on their wicket.
To compound it both kwikfit openers have batted about three times as long as England's second most durable batsman, nearly three hours apiece. Puts the pitch into perspective, I've never really rated Finn or Broad and top bowlers step up when they are needed whereas England bowlers usually only turn up when things are going well for them.
England need one of their bowlers to claw this back, if they can get the kiwis out for 300-350 then there could still be a game on. The kiwis must make most of this advantage with it only being a four day game now, if England get 350-400 in their 2nd innings it may get a bit tight depending of course how far the kiwis get in front.
Sad thing is England often go right back into defensive mode, Yawn was a bad bugger for it. You might slow the run rate down, but you also reduce wicket taking chances by spreading the field. Of course England can only blame themselves with half the batsmen throwing away their wickets costing I'd estimate at least 100 runs.
