Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen find form in mismatch against tame Lions In Abu Dhabi, England's match began at 9.15am in morning air helpful for swing and seam bowlers such as Steven Finn and Jade Dernbach. The early part of the day is when the ball nips around here but at that time during the one-day series Finn and Dernbach will probably still be in bed rather than bowling. But they were not going to miss out and bowled with pace and movement to blow the Lions away. At 14 for four the match was over as a contest within the first six overs. Tim Bresnan bowled five overs without any reaction from his elbow injury and Finn looked the lethal quick bowler who emerged in India last year but was unable to force his way into the Test side. Dernbach appeared to rely on pace rather than his clever collection of slower balls and took a wicket with his first ball when he knocked over Alex Hales's off stump. His fifth delivery nipped back hitting Joe Root in front and in his third over James Vince pulled to the man at midwicket to leave the Lions 13 for three. There were wickets for Graeme Swann too and naturally they were both left-handers, Moeen Ali and Scott Borthwick. Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook batted for more than an hour as they formed a new partnership at the top of the order. The Lions showed little respect for reputations and opened the bowling with slow left-armer Danny Briggs. Pietersen responded to the challenge and rarely looked in trouble. He struck hard down the ground while Cook mainly scored square of the wicket. There was a noticeable attempt by England to work on their weakness of dropping the ball into gaps and rotating the strike against the slow bowlers. Pietersen batted with ease but he rarely makes big scores in warm-up matches and was undone by some extra bounce from Woakes. Cook took England past the first target of 97 but was stumped as he tried to step up the scoring rate. Jonathan Trott used the opportunity to play in his usual manner with an unbeaten 75 off 92 balls. There was no need for him to up the ante in such circumstances and few players are happier playing in their own bubble, although even he was not going to miss out on such easy pickings striking a straight six down the ground as the second target was achieved as easily as the first.