This could well rank as India’s greatest ever Test victory. It certainly is up there in the context of series victories; it rates higher than the team’s last triumph in Australia.

Consider the following: the captain went home to be by his pregnant wife’s side after a horrendous first Test loss. A mammoth 20 players were used in the series, of whom four were debutants. And two of those players were only retained in the squad because of the COVID restrictions and the requirement to provide your own net bowlers.