Nearly a tenth of the 5,000-plus people who had filtered into the Manuka Oval on Sunday afternoon trooped out of the ground moments after Rohit Sharma was dismissed for three, reaching out to a widish ball from Charlie Anderson and putting first slip in business.

Rohit was the biggest attraction of the Indians’s rescheduled pink-ball one-day warm-up game against a Prime Minister’s XI, especially once it became clear that Virat Kohli would take no part in the match. The Indian captain, a late arrival in Australia towards the end of the Perth Test, lasted only 11 deliveries after coming in at No. 4 — how much should be read into KL Rahul continuing to open with Yashasvi Jaiswal is left to individual points of view at this juncture — and trudged off visibly disappointed, failing to make the most of his only competitive hit before the day-night Test in Adelaide from Friday.