Only a mother can feel the helplessness of her child and when Yash Dayal was on his haunches exactly 405 evenings back at the Motera, Radha Dayal had fallen ill watching his son pick up pieces of a fledgling career. It lay in tatters after longtime UP teammate Rinku Singh clobbered him for five successive sixes walking into collective consciousness of a nation.

It could have well been an end of the road for Dayal but those who pay little heed to the ruthlessly fickle social media stood by their man and he delivered.