This Indian team will take some stopping. If there were any doubts surrounding their all-round strength, those were comprehensively exploded on Thursday night, Sri Lanka at the receiving end of a severe pasting at the Wankhede Stadium.

Before their last game against England, India had won five matches chasing; in Lucknow, they only managed 229 for nine on being put in, significantly below par even on a tricky track. That anomaly was corrected when, despite Rohit Sharma’s second-ball dismissal, India piled up 357 for eight on the back of blistering half-centuries from Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and local lad Shreyas Iyer, desperately in need of a big score as much for his own confidence as for anything else.