As Travis Head put Varun Chakravarthy up in the air, Shubman Gill came charging in, running a little to his left, from long-off. The vice-captain had a reasonable distance to cover, which meant the ball had a hang-time of a couple of seconds. Enough time for a fielder to start thinking. ‘Oh, what if I drop the catch? Wasn’t he already dropped on 0, and has since blasted his way to 39?’… You get the drift.

No sign of nerves

With Gill, there were no such fears. His feet eating up ground rapidly but surely, his eyes unwaveringly on the ball, the head still and steady, the hands in perfect position, no sign of nerves. Sometimes, you instinctively know that the catch will be completed, comfortably. This was one of those instances.